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Eight local Catholic organizations have reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris Agreement global climate change accord by signing the Catholic Climate Declaration. The Catholic Climate Covenant is a nonprofit formed by the U.S. bishops and other Catholic organizations in 2006 to help guide church response to the moral consequences of climate change. The declaration affirms the commitment of Catholic parishes, dioceses, schools, colleges and universities, health care see climate, page 6
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Pope Francis prays in the crypt of the Basilica of St. Nicholas during a meeting with the heads of Christian churches in the Middle East in Bari, Italy, July 7. The pope has ordered a revision to the catechism to state that the death penalty is inadmissible and he committed the church to its abolition.
VATICAN CITY – Building on the development of Catholic Church teaching against capital punishment, Pope Francis has ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to assert “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person” and to commit the church to working toward its abolition worldwide. The catechism’s paragraph on capital punishment, 2267, already had been updated by St. John Paul II in 1997 to strengthen its skepticism about the need to use the death penalty in the modern world and, particularly, to affirm the importance of protecting all human life. see death penalty, page 21
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celibate life must remain as chaste in his relationship with all whom he serves as spouses within a marriage. This is what our faith teaches and what we are held to in practice. There is no ‘third way,’” WASHINGTON – The sexual abuse allegations surrounding now-former Cardinal Theodore E. Mc- he added. Bishop Scharfenberger said, “Abuse of authorCarrick have prompted some church figures to call ity – in this case, with strong sexual overtones for a more thorough reckoning of the U.S. church’s – with vulnerable persons is hardly clerical sexual abuse policies. Catholic News Service less reprehensible than the sexual “We can – and I am confident that abuse of minors, which the USwe will – strengthen the rules and WASHINGTON – Archbishop Theodore E. McCarCCB (U.S. Conference of Catholic regulations and sanctions against rick “will rightly face” a Vatican canonical process Bishops) attempted to address in any trying to fly under the radar regarding sexual abuse allegations against him, but 2002. Unfortunately, at that time or to ‘get away with’ such evil and the U.S. Catholic Church must take steps to respond – something I never understood – destructive behaviors,” said Bishop to church leaders’ “moral failures of judgment,” the ‘Charter’ (‘for the Protection Edward B. Scharfenberger of Alsaid the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic of Children and Young People’) bany, New York, in a July 27 letter Bishops. did not go far enough so as to hold to clergy in his diocese. “But, at The accusations against Archbishop McCarrick, Baltimore Archbishop cardinals, archbishops and bishops its heart, this is much more than a a former cardinal and retired archbishop of WashWilliam E. Lori equally, if not more, accountable challenge of law enforcement; it is a ington, “reveal a grievous moral failure within the than priests and deacons.” profoundly spiritual crisis.” church,” said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of GalvesHe said he believes the “vast majority of clergy – “In negative terms, and as clearly and directly as ton-Houston. priests, deacons and bishops alike – live or, at least, I can repeat our church teaching, it is a grave sin “They cause bishops anger, sadness, and shame; are striving to live holy and admirable lifestyles. I to be ‘sexually active’ outside of a real marriage I know they do in me,” he said in an Aug. 1 stateam ashamed of those of my brothers, such as the covenant. A cardinal is not excused from what a ment. “They compel bishops to ask, as I do, what layperson or another member of the clergy is not,” cardinal, who do not and have not.” more could have been done to protect the people of A personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. Bishop Scharfenberger said. If you have a flag honoring your loved one's military service and would like tosee donate it seereceived mccarick, page 14 “A member of the clergy who pledges to live a DiNardo, page 13 Mark Pattison
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need to know NEW SPANISH MISSAL WORKSHOPS: Misal Romano Tercera Edicion, the new Spanish language missal for the United States, will be previewed and discussed Sept. 4, Mission Dolores Basilica, San Francisco; Sept. 6, St. Raphael Church, San Rafael; Sept. 11, St. Matthew Church, San Mateo; Sept. 13, Corpus Christi Church, San Francisco. All sessions are 10:30 a.m.-noon and admission is free. The Office of Worship invites all priests, deacons, parish musicians and diocesan leaders who lead or participate in Masses in Spanish to attend. Areas of discussion will include what is new in the missal and what has stayed the same, the book’s layout, the Proper of Saints and new Masses as well as music notation and chant. Registration is requested by emailing your name and session you will attend to director of worship Laura Bertone, bertonel@sfarch.org, or leaving a message at (415) 614-5586.
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St. Pio of Pietrelcina’s devotion to the Blessed Mother inspired St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish in Sausalito to host a public tour of five relics of the saint the weekend of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 8. Padre Pio “I have this personal belief that anything we ask from Jesus through his mother Mary gets VIP attention,” Father Mike Quinn, pastor, told Catholic San Francisco. “Padre Pio had that same disposition.” “Padre Pio,” as he is more commonly known, was born Francesco Forgione in Italy in 1887 and became a (Photo by Christina Gray/Catholic San Francisco) Capuchin Franciscan at age 15. When Father Mike Quinn, pastor of St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish in Sausalito, indicates the altar in he was 31, the five wounds of Christ’s the church’s Fatima chapel where five Padre Pio relics will be displayed Sept. 8-9. Church Goods Candles Religious Gifts & Books crucifixion appeared on & his body, makthe first-class relics can be touched, In his letters to his spiritual direcing him the first stigmatized priest in according to Father Quinn, creating tors, Padre Pio revealed the physical the history of the Catholic Church. a third-class relic. All proceeds and Of poor health from birth, the humble and spiritual suffering which accomdonations from the relic tour benefit panied him all through his life. They priest founded the Home for the Relief the foundation, according to Father of Suffering (the Casa Sollievo della Sof- also revealed his deep union with Quinn. God, his ferenza) in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. 5 locations in burning California love for the EuchaFather Quinn said that his parishiorist and the Blessed Mother. Today it is an institution considered by ners were really the force that helped to Father Quinn, St. Your According Local Store: some to be a model for Catholic health bring the relics to St. Mary Star of the first stop on the last care delivery. Pope Saint John Paul II Ave.,Mary’s 369 Grand S.San is Francisco,650-583-5153 the Sea. One in particular promised part of a North American tour of the canonized Padre Pio in 2002.Near SF Airport - Exit 101 Frwy @ Grand his dying father he would maintain a saint’s relics organized by the New Earlier this year in a pastoral visit devotion to Mary. York-based cotters@cotters.com Saint Pio Foundation marking the centenary ofwww.cotters.com the apFor Father Quinn, the significance on the 50th anniversary year of his pearance of Padre Pio’s stigmata, of the relic tour is as much about death on Sept. 23, 1968. Last year over Pope Francis celebrated Mass with Mary as it is Padre Pio. The parish is 250,000 people visited relic tour sites about 30,000 people after visiting sick named after Mary and the Archdioin the U.S., Canada and Mexico. children at St. Pio’s hospital and later cese of San Francisco was consecratRelics available for public veneravisited Padre Pio’s remains. ed to her Immaculate Heart in 2017. tion at St. Mary’s will include the In his homily he called Padre Pio, “The relic tour is an opportunity for saint’s glove, a crust from his wounds, “an apostle of the confessional.” people to come to rest with Mary at a blood-stained piece of cotton gauze, “St. Pio offered his life and untold our beautiful church,” he said. a lock of his hair, his mantle and a suffering to enable his brothers and handkerchief soaked with his sweat sisters to encounter the Lord,” he Admission for the relics tour is free hours before he died. said. “And the decisive way of enbut registration is recommended. Visit The St. Pio Foundation will sell countering him was through confesstarofthesea.us. sion, the sacrament of reconciliation.” small religious articles with which
MONTH’S MIND MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will be principal celebrant of a month’s mind Mass for the repose of the soul of Monterey Bishop Richard Garcia who died July 11. Bishop Garcia was 71 years old and had led the Diocese of Monterey for 11 years. The Mass will be celebrated Friday, Aug. 10 in Holy Cross Mausoleum, Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, at 10 a.m. A light reception will follow.
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Four couples wed in special ceremony at St. Bruno Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco
A busy parish might see three weddings on a single Saturday. On a windy Saturday afternoon at St. Bruno Church in San Bruno, four couples were married during a single Mass. The newlyweds – Tupetaki and Malia Leger, Islander and Rosa Medrano, Leonel and Eliza Hernandez and Bernardo and Juanita Magana – were all wed through a ministry at St. Bruno that encourages civilly wed or cohabitating couples to receive the sacrament of marriage. Bernardo Magana told Catholic San Francisco he and his wife had been married civilly for six years but had always put off a church wedding. The two did not have many friends or family when they moved to the area, he said, and the expense and time did not seem worth it. After they moved to San Bruno, his wife Juanita became more interested in getting in touch with the church, and began talking to Father Michael Brillantes, the pastor of St. Bruno. When they found out about the “mass wedding” the parish offered, they decided it was a good fit for their situation. The experience was “very positive,” Magana said. While the two were already very committed to each other, the marriage was important for bringing them closer to God. And the involvement of the parish community, along with the friends and family of the other couples, was important as well. “We would never have had that many people there to celebrate with us, so it was nice to see the community there,” he said. Father Brillantes told Catholic San Francisco the parish had celebrated group weddings several times before. Through religious education classes, announcements after Mass and word of mouth, the
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Tupetaki and Malia Leger and Leonel and Eliza Hernandez were among four couples who wed sacramentally during a special Mass at St. Bruno Church on Aug. 4. parish reached out to couples in stable relationships who have been civilly married or have cohabitated for at least five years and invited them to celebrate the sacrament of matrimony in the church. Father Brillantes said that the couples they invite “are not strangers to us – they’re part of our parish family.” The couples he has prepared for group weddings over the years had delayed getting a sacramental marriage for several reasons, he said. Often couples do not recognize the importance of a sacramental marriage or feel they do not have enough time to commit to a church wedding. Especially if they have immigrated to the United States, they are not always able to produce the documents the church requires before marriage. Cost can be another factor, he said. While St. Bruno typically charges $500 to cover the costs associated with a church wedding, the group wedding is free. The marriage ministry at St. Bruno to stable
couples without sacramental marriages takes on additional importance in light of the national decline in Catholic weddings. Marriages within the church have declined more than 60 percent since the ‘70s. Only 29 percent of Catholics held a church wedding in 2016. Pope Francis has taught often on the importance of marriage and the family, writing in “Amoris Laetitia” that couples are a “living reflection” of the Trinity, and provide “an image for understanding and describing the mystery of God.” Magana said he was grateful for the wedding, and that it had brought him and his wife closer to God. “I wish more churches would do this,” he said. Mass attendance could also increase, Magana said, if more couples were brought in who were staying away because of concern about how God saw their lives. “There are a lot of couples in our situation, who don’t want a big celebration, but want to get certified by the church,” he said.
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Father Raymond Malley, SM 1968. Father Ray is a 1958 graduate of Archbishop Riordan High School as well as a former Riordan chaplain and teacher. Mike Mayer, a 1971 Riordan alumnus, longtime Riordan benefactor and member of the school’s board of trustees, remembered the priest: “Father Ray Malley played a formative role in my education. He nominally taught Latin, but he took the initiative to go way beyond the formal course work. He felt that the overall curriculum was not challenging enough so he ‘volunteered’ a small group of us to take on more demanding reading assignments in history. In college and graduate school I never felt at an educational disadvantage to anyone, no matter how elite a high school they attended. One of the main reasons I stay involved at Riordan is that I feel an obligation, and a desire, to give back and pay forward the gift Father Malley gave me.” In a note accompanying Father Ray’s jubilee announcement in a Marianist publication, the priest said: “The pastor at my home parish of St. John the Evangelist made the liturgy an important part of Catholic life and gave that sentiment to the parishioners. He fostered vocations.”
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Paul Iwai, now a physician at a community hospital in the Northern California foothills, recently enjoyed a reunion with his former Marin Catholic High School English teacher Tom Lippi who retired just a few months ago after Tom Lippi more than 40 years at MC, and who chatted with me about it in this column April 12. Paul, a 1985 MC alum, said he was spurred to communicate with Tom by the April 12 column. Tom “looked good,” Paul said. “Same fire in his eyes. Same generosity of spirit. He is very proud of the teachers and staff who will succeed him.” On a trip to London 10 or so years ago, Paul bought Tom a Groundling T-shirt at the famed Globe Theater reminiscent of a group of Tom’s students he called Groundlings and of which Paul was one. They were so named, Paul said, after “the often rowdy crowd that would stand near the stage during Shakespeare’s performances.” Paul had been unable to deliver the shirt until, now. “I’ll be sporting my Groundlings shirt with pride,” Tom told me in our conversation about the meet. “I was grateful and touched to have a visit with my student Paul Iwai. I am so happy, and not at all surprised, to behold the fine man, loving husband and father, and wonderful doctor he has become. I’m grateful to have played a small part in Paul’s story.”
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: Dona and Frank Edlund celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a renewal of vows among family and friends in the chapel of the Capuchin Friars in Burlingame July 29. Capuchin Father Michael Mahoney, pastor of Our Lady of Angels Parish, where Dona and Frank have been parishioners for five decades, and pictured here with the couple, presided. Dona and Frank were married July 28, 1968, at St. Dunstan Church, Millbrae. Dona is a retired staffer from Archbishop Riordan High School. Frank is a retired butcher now known for his work with lead and stained glass windows. In a thank you note, Paul told Tom: “Were it not for you, my life would have been less.” Tom said he has somewhat settled into retirement: “As I begin to see ‘Back to School’ ads in papers and receive (holding over) emails from my school about retuning issues, retirement is starting to seem real,” he said. “And good, albeit a little bittersweet–I really loved that job of mine. I will say that my garden has
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MOST HOLY REDEEMER PARISH, SAN FRANCISCO: Pasta for varying tastes and all to benefit San Francisco’s St. James School was the theme of the parish’s annual sauce cook-off July 28. Almost 200 hungry supporters including those pictured here awaiting their meal served by contest entrants had 14 different sauce recipes to choose from. Ticket sales and silent and live auctions raised more than $7,500 for the school. “Most Holy Redeemer has been collaboratively working with St. James School for a number of years,” the parish said. “Their involvement
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INTRODUCTION 1. “Rejoice and be glad” (Mt 5:12), Jesus tells those persecuted or humiliated for his sake. The Lord asks everything of us, and in return he offers us true life, the happiness for which we were created. He wants us to be saints and not to settle for a bland and mediocre existence. The call to holiness is present in various ways from the very first pages of the Bible. We see it expressed in the Lord’s words to Abraham, “Walk before me, and be blameless” (Gn 17:1). 2. What follows is not meant to be a treatise on holiness, containing definitions and distinctions helpful for understanding this important subject, or a discussion of the various means of sanctification. My modest goal is to repropose the call to holiness in a practical way for our own time, with all its risks, challenges and opportunities. For the Lord has chosen each one of us “to be holy and blameless before him in love” (Eph 1:4).
CHAPTER 1: THE CALL TO HOLINESS The Saints Who Encourage and Accompany Us
3. The Letter to the Hebrews presents a number of testimonies that encourage us to “run with perseverance the race that is set before us” (12:1). It speaks of Abraham, Sarah, Moses, Gideon and others (cf. 11:1-12:3). Above all, it invites us to realize that “a great cloud of witnesses” (12:1) impels us to advance constantly toward the goal. These witnesses may include our own mothers, grandmothers or other loved ones (cf. 2 Tim 1:5). Their lives may not always have been perfect, yet even amid their faults and failings they kept moving forward and proved pleasing to the Lord. 4. The saints now in God’s presence preserve their bonds of love and communion with us. The Book of Revelation attests to this when it speaks of the intercession of the martyrs: “I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne; they cried out with a loud voice, ‘O sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long will it be before you judge?’” (6:910). Each of us can say, “Surrounded, led and guided by the friends of God ... I do not have to carry alone what, in truth, I could never carry alone. All the saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me.” 5. The processes of beatification and canonization recognize the signs of heroic virtue, the sacrifice of one’s life in martyrdom and certain cases where a life is constantly offered for others even until death. This shows an exemplary imitation of Christ, one worthy of the admiration of the faithful. We can think, for example, of Blessed Maria Gabriella Sagheddu, who offered her life for the unity of Christians.
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6. Nor need we think only of those already beatified and canonized. The Holy Spirit bestows holiness in abundance among God’s holy and faithful people, for “it has pleased God to make men and women holy and to save them, not as individuals without any bond between them but rather as a people who might acknowledge him in truth and serve him in holiness.” In salvation history, the Lord saved one people. We are never completely ourselves unless we belong to a people. That is why no one is saved alone as an isolated individual. Rather, God draws us to himself, taking into account the complex fabric of interpersonal relationships present in a human community. God wanted to enter into the life and history of a people. 7. I like to contemplate the holiness present in the patience of God’s people: in those parents who raise their children with immense love, in those men and women who work hard to support their families, in the sick, in elderly religious who never lose their smile. In their daily perseverance I see the holiness of the church militant. Very often it is a holiness found in our next-door neighbors, those who, living in our midst, reflect God’s presence. We might call them “the middle class of holiness.” 8. Let us be spurred on by the signs of holiness that the Lord shows us through the humblest members of that people who “shares also in Christ’s prophetic office, spreading abroad a living witness to him, especially by means of a life of faith and charity.” We should consider the fact that, www.catholic-sf.org as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross suggests, real history is made by so many of them. As she writes: $1.00 | VOL. 20 NO. 14 “The greatest figures of prophecy and sanctity step forth
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As a resource for our readers, Catholic San Francisco presents the full text of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation “Gaudete et Exsultate,” signed on March 19, the feast of St. Joseph. “In the ordinary course of each day, the pope reminds us, ‘We need to recognize and combat our aggressive and selfish inclinations, and not let them take root’ (no. 114),” U.S. bishops’ president Cardinal Daniel DiNardo said when Newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco the pope’s message was released on April 9. “Yet, he says, this ‘battle is sweet, for FRANCISCO, MARIN & SAN 12,extra 2018 it allowsSERVING us toSAN rejoice each time theMATEO LordCOUNTIES triumphs in our lives’ (no. 158).”JULY For copies of this special 12-page pullout section, please email your name and address to csf@sfarchdiocese.org, subject line: Gaudete, or call (415) 614-5639.
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SEE ‘GAUDETE ET bishops, EXSULTATE’, we PAGEunderstand PF2 As pastors and that mental health is a critical component of well-being. Therefore, ministering to those who suffer from mental illness is an essential part of the pastoral care of the Church. This letter represents a statement by Catholic pastors, in consultation with those who suffer from mental illness, their families and loved ones, health care practitioners, and other caregivers. We acknowledge and thank our collaborators patients, families, mental health professionals, and pastoral care workers – who assisted with this statement. As pastors and bishops, we are deeply concerned with the heartbreaking prevalence of mental illness in our society and are taking action to address this tragic form of misery and sorrow Though not as apparent and familiar as general medical problems, mental illness is equally important and is uniquely challenging and burdensome. It strikes deep within the human soul, impacting and influencing a person’s thoughts, emotions and behaviors; thereby affecting all aspects of a person’s life – work and rest, family life and relationships, prayer and one’s relationship with God. We need not look far to encounter our brothers and sisters who struggle with mental illness. Even those who do not have serious mental health problems can, to some extent, understand the experience of those who do: for not one of us is entirely free from periods of anxiety, emotional distress, troubling or intrusive thoughts, or strong temptations. Every human being is psychologically wounded by the effects of original sin and beset by human weaknesses and vulnerabilities. We recognize that the experience of serious or chronic mental illness is unique and should not be trivialized; yet, when we address this issue, we need to overcome an attitude of “us” and “them,” which separates us one from another. Anyone may struggle with mental health problems; some require clinical attention or special forms of assistance. Even those who attend to the needs of others, including the pastors of the Church, are “wounded healers”: each of us is imperfect before God and in need of Christ’s redemptive grace.
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In the Old Testament, the prophet Isaiah spoke of the Messiah who would bring hope to God’s people, a savior who would help them in their affliction: “Fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand” (Is 41:10). Matthew’s Gospel recounts how Jesus healed countless afflictions of body, mind and spirit: “So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics and paralytics, and he healed them” (Mt 4:24). Jesus Christ’s public life was a ministry of hope and healing. As Catholics, in imitation of our Lord, we are called to provide hope and healing to others. We profess that every human life is sacred, that all people are created in the image and likeness of God and therefore, a person’s dignity and worth cannot be diminished by any condition, including mental illness. We believe all baptized persons have unique gifts to offer and have a place in the Church, the body of Christ. Thus, we are all called to attend to those in our midst who suffer in body or mind; we pledge to work together with families and loved ones, mental health professionals, community organizations, and all individuals and institutions that engage in this important work. Persons with mental illness often suffer in silence, hidden and unrecognized by others. Consider this stark contrast: a person with a medical illness, such as cancer, will usually receive an outpouring of sympathy and support from their parish and community; a person diagnosed with SEE HOPE AND HEALING, PAGE H2
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As a resource for our readers, Catholic San Francisco presents this special package on the 50th anniversary of “Humanae Vitae,” the encyclical issued by Pope John Paul VI 50 years ago almost to the day. The section reprints the paper’s recent nine-part series on the anniversary and includes current national perspective on the encyclical’s impact along with a glimpse of how The Monitor, the official newspaper of the archdiocese at the time, covered the news in 1968. For extra copies, please email your name and address to csf@sfarchdiocese.org, subject line: HV 50, or call (415) 614-5639.
‘Humanae Vitae’: Still controversial, still church teaching after 50 years In the initial installments of Catholic San Francisco’s series on “Humanae Vitae,” Ed Hopfner, director of the archdiocesan Office of Marriage and Family Life, reviewed the encyclical and Dr. Mary Davenport wrote on the topic of our modern understanding of fertility. Later installments considered a variety of perspectives, beginning with modern science but also including cultural and sociological aspects , dynamics of the couple’s relationship, concerns about fertility, infertility and childbearing and the theology which underlies the document. The articles were posted on catholic-sf. org as well as on a special archdiocesan web page at sfarch.org/HV.
for this 50th anniversary, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has asked us to look at both the encyclical and its teaching on love, sexuality, marriage and fertility and procreation, and the ‘serious role’ married couples play in God’s plan.
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n July 1968, not long after the Summer of Love in San Francisco, Blessed Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical “Humanae Vitae” (“On Human Life”), sometimes known as the “birth control encyclical.” It was greeted within less than 24 hours by an unprecedented statement of rejection on the front page of The New York Times, headed “Catholic experts in strong dissent” and signed by nearly 100 Catholic theologians. In the 50 years since the encyclical was issued it has remained one of the most controversial documents Ed HopfnEr in Catholic Church history. Even Pope Benedict XVI thought that the encyclical could have been improved, since he said it failed to explain the “why” of the church’s teaching though Pope St. John Paul II later did so in his Theology of the Body. On the other hand, Pope Francis has repeatedly insisted that “we need to return to the message of ‘Humanae Vitae,’” most recently in his own apostolic exhortation in a follow up to two synods on the family “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”). In his earlier groundbreaking encyclical on the environment, “Laudato si’,” Pope Francis reminds us that authentic human development “presumes full respect for the human person, must also be concerned for the world around us and ‘take into account the nature of each being.’” Care for the environment means care for each other, and our respecting our own human nature, the pontiff writes in the 2015 encyclical. In particular, the Holy Father writes in “Laudato si’,” we must acknowledge “the relationship between human life and the moral law, inscribed in our nature and necessary for the creation of a more dignified environment.” We must recognize that
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Pope Francis blesses a pregnant woman after delivering his Christmas wishes to Vatican employees and their families during a special audience Dec. 21 in Paul VI hall at the Vatican. “man has a nature that he must respect and that he cannot manipulate at will” and that “our body itself establishes us in a direct relationship with the environment.” Thus, the acceptance of our bodies as God’s gift is vital for welcoming and accepting the entire world as a gift from the Father and our common home. In “Amoris Laetitia,” Pope Francis reminds us that “in a particular way, the encyclical “Humanae Vitae” brought out the intrinsic bond between conjugal love and the generation of life.” Marriage is ordered not only to the unity of the couple, but to a love that goes outward, most often in the bearing and raising of children. While marriage and childrearing are often challenging, Pope Francis
encourages “the use of methods based on the ‘laws of nature’” since these methods “respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them and favor the education of an ‘authentic freedom.’” As a loving father does, he insists that “greater emphasis needs to be placed on the fact that children are a wonderful gift from God and a joy for parents and the church.” What makes Blessed Pope Paul VI’s short document of barely a dozen typewritten pages so hotly contested? It makes several predictions - have the last 50 years supported or contradicted Pope Paul’s forecast? Is Pope Francis correct, that “the teaching of the encyclical “Humanae Vitae”… ought to be taken up anew, in order to counter a mentality that is often hostile to life…” Is “Humanae Vitae” still relevant in a culture of hookups and Tinder? Blessed Paul VI begins the encyclical with the words, “The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator. It has always been a source of great joy to them, even though it sometimes entails many difficulties and hardships.” For this 50th anniversary, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has asked us to look at both the encyclical and its teaching on love, sexuality, marriage, fertility and procreation, and the “serious role” married couples play in God’s plan. This series will consider a variety of perspectives, beginning with modern science, but also including cultural and sociological aspects, dynamics of the couple’s relationship, concerns about fertility, infertility and childbearing, as well as the theology which underlies the document. I also encourage you to read the document itself – most estimates are that barely one Catholic in 100 has actually read it, yet it is short, profound, and well worth the time invested. Ed HopfnEr is director of the Office of Marriage and Family Life for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. First published in the Feb. 8, 2018, issue oF CatholiC san FranCisCo.
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Climate: Local Catholic groups reaffirm moral action on environment FROM PAGE 1
organizations and religious communities to the goals of the Paris Agreement despite U.S. withdrawal in 2017. The University of San Francisco, Daughters of Charity, Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, Presentation Sisters, Sisters of Mercy, St. Raphael Parish in San Rafael, St. Teresa of Avila Parish in San Francisco and Mercy High School in San Francisco are among the more than 600 Jesuit Father Catholic organizaPaul Fitzgerald tions nationwide that had signed the declaration as of July 28. The commitments are in the spirit of Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical “Laudato si’” (“On Care for our Common Home.” The pope lamented “pollution, waste and the throwaway culture” and called for a new dialogue on what he called the rapid acceleration of changes affecting humanity, especially the poor, and the planet. Instead of “lapsing into despair” or apathy because the scientific evidence of climate change is already so overwhelming, the encyclical provides “an Ignatian spirituality to actively engage us and give us a clear path forward,” University of San Francisco president Jesuit Father Paul Fitzgerald told Catholic San Francisco. “Catholics have a deep spirituality about incarnation, the presence of God in people and in all of the living beings,” Father Fitzgerald said. “Our theology really gives us some advantages that we can put at the service of the commonwealth.” He said the Jesuit university has redoubled its efforts to give all students a “sense of responsibility around climate change and the impacts that overwhelmingly affect the poor.” New undergraduate programs have taken root, including environmental science, environmental studies and urban agriculture – the latter to educate students about corporate food systems, more equitable models of agriculture, and environmental and food justice. Last year, the university purchased Star Route Farms in coastal Bolinas, California’s oldest organic farm. Its operations are becoming an educational field station for these programs and others. As students’ knowledge deepens, so has their commitment to asking for change at the highest levels, Father
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San Francisco will host the first international climate conference organized by a U.S. state, Sept. 12-14 at Moscone Center. The Global Climate Action Summit was organized by California Gov. Jerry Brown to support the 2015 Paris Agreement from which President Trump withdrew in 2017. Visit climateactionsummit.org. Catholics are invited to Grace Cathedral to attend a series of free faith-rooted affiliated workshops led by experts the week of the summit. Visit diocal.org to register.
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Dominican Sister Carla Kovack outside the Jane D’Aza Convent, the community’s house of formation in San Rafael. The convent, completed in 2005, is the only convent in the U.S. to have earned top level certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Fitzgerald said. One student approached the university administration to ask whether its endowment fund was invested in fossil fuels or fossil fuel extraction processes such as fracking. “So we went and looked,” he said. “Just as we don’t invest in private prisons or tobacco companies or abortion providers, we are now letting those kind of investments run out and are investing in alternative energies.” St. Teresa of Avila Parish cut carbon emissions by more than 25 percent from 2014-17, began to generate its own energy for the priory and saved more than $8,500. Pastor Carmelite Father Mike Greenwell credited the 2016 installation of rooftop solar power on the priory for these savings and said the parish finance council also approved the purchase of wind power for the church building. “We have been extremely fortunate to have pastors and a deacon who are fully committed to improving the environmental performance of our parish,” said Stephen Miller, a member of the St. Teresa “green team.” “This is half the battle.”
Almost 20 years ago, the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael signed the Earth Charter, an international declaration of values and principles for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society. When it came to supporting the Catholic Climate Covenant, the sisters “were all in one accord,” said Sister Carla Kovack, OP. “As Dominicans we have always appreciated all of creation and find truth and beauty to be reflective of the divine,” Sister Carla said. The sisters’ efforts, including hosting an environmental film series, writing letters to lawmakers and investing community funds in “green” projects, will be presented at the Global Climate Action Summit Sept. 12-14 in San Francisco as examples of tangible actions by covenant signatories. In a message from Vatican City on the third anniversary of the encyclical, Pope Francis urged economic and religious organizations to participate in the conference to “promote the culture and practice of an integral ecology.” The most visible sign of the San Rafael Dominicans’ commitment predates
The power of parishes to spread the message of Pope Francis’ encyclical will be the topic of a talk by Jesuit Father John Coleman, associate pastor of St. Ignatius Parish, at St. Anselm Parish, Ross, Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. The free talk coincides with the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco Sept. 12-14.
Pope Francis: The Jane D’Aza house of formation was completed in 2005 and is a model of energy-efficient design. At the Sisters of Mercy, the Earth is one of the community’s five “critical concerns,” along with nonviolence, immigration, racism and women. Presentation Sister Pat Davis, chair of the community’s justice committee, said retired sisters “feel the ache of not being bodily present” in advocating for God’s creation. She said many participate in “computer chair justice work,” doing outreach via email or by mail. “Our beautiful God of abundance created all of this for us, and we are woven in to it,” she said. “It is a gift to be a part of it.” Daughter of Charity Margaret Louise Brown, director of the community’s office of social justice and environmental advocacy in Los Altos HIlls, said she has seen much acceptance and passion among community members about changing consumer and lifestyle habits and attempting to change policy. “You can’t really change anything on the outside until you have converted on the inside,” she said.
Canadian ecumenical document embraces Christian concern for environment Michael Swan Catholic News Service
TORONTO – Canada’s two largest churches, which represent two-thirds of Canadian Christians, have jointly declared that climate change and ecological degradation are central, enduring concerns for Christians. The declaration is contained in “The Hope Within Us,” a document released July 23 from the Roman Catholic-United Church of Canada Dialogue in Canada. “We claim that the divine presence permeates all creation, holds all together in a dynamic relationship and calls us beyond our human-centered perspective into a consciousness that affirms and respects all life and all creation,” it said. “The acceleration of our technology, the rapacious ethic of progress and the greed of our economic
and political systems are today wreaking havoc upon the environment and humanity.” The ecumenical document marks 40 years of dialogue between the churches. The 22-page statement draws heavily on Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.” On the United Church side, “The Hope Within Us” leans on the 2006 teaching document “Song of Faith.” But the ecumenical statement also relies on the desert fathers, medieval mystics and Scripture to make its case. “Early church theologians saw the interrelationship of the Trinity through the dynamic life of creation itself,” wrote the 21 dialogue participants, including two Catholic bishops. “In St. Bonaventure’s trinitarian theology, every creature is a self-expression of God, and the inner structure of every
creature and all creation can be said to reflect the trinitarian footprint.” “It is good theology,” said Dennis Patrick O’Hara, director of the Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology at St. Michael’s College in Toronto. “(It) accurately and faithfully reflects the current discussion at the forefront of the Roman Catholic and United Church traditions.” That churches are working together on climate change is particularly significant. “Let’s be serious. If you’re dealing with a planetary crisis, as we are, this is not a time for quibbling about barriers between us. It’s a time to be finding common voices for the common good of our common home,” O’Hara said. The most significant common ground at play is how both Catholic social teaching and the United Church’s social
gospel tradition recognize the importance of social sin, said Dominican Father Prakash Lohale, director of ecumenical and interfaith affairs for the Archdiocese of Toronto. “It’s not so much something to feel guilty about, but because we can make that conclusion that creation also is holy – Pope Francis talks about it as a sacrament – then I think the concept of social sin could make people conscious,” Father Lohale said. Ecumenical dialogue provides an opportunity for religion to engage with the most important questions of our time, he added. “We have long traditions of schisms and differences in theology,” he said. “But it’s like Pope Francis said during his visit to the World Council of Churches in Geneva. ‘Let not our differences stop us.’”
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Religious freedom ‘rooted in dignity of human person,’ says archbishop
WASHINGTON – Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, gave three reasons why religious freedom is important to the Catholic Church in a speech July 30 at a conference on the issue at the Justice Department in Washington. “We are called by Jesus Christ to inspire a culture, religious freedom gives us a space to serve, and we can solve social problems better when all of us work together to find a solution,” said the archbishop, who is chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Religious Liberty. He began by describing the teachings that lead the Catholic Church to support religious freedom: “The Catholic Church teaches that religious liberty is rooted in the dignity of the human person. The human person has dignity because we are made in the image of God, and so each of us has the capacity to seek the truth about God.” This vision of the human person, he said, is essential to healthy politics. In contrast, protecting religious freedom is part of the church’s “vision of human flourishing,” he said.
Pennsylvania grand jury report on clergy abuse could be released in August
ERIE, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Supreme Court July 27 cleared the way for the August release of a redacted version of a grand jury report on clergy sex abuse that has been termed by one of the state’s Catholic bishops as “graphic” and “sobering.” The seven-member high court ruled that the long-awaited report must be released as early as Aug. 8, minus the names of several clergy who argue that the report sullies their reputations without providing them their constitutional right to defend themselves. If all parties agree to conceal the estimated 24 names, the nearly 900-page redacted report could become public Aug. 8. If an agreement is not reached by then, the court will appoint someone to assist in reaching a consensus by Aug. 14. “There can be no doubt that the subject matter of the report is incendiary, and therefore, the stakes for individuals reproached therein are substantially heightened,” Chief Justice Thomas Saylor said. The Diocese of Erie in northwest Pennsylvania has been at the forefront of an effort urging the
release of the report, which details widespread clergy sex abuse of minors in six of the state’s eight Catholic dioceses. In addition to Erie, the dioceses are Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Allentown, Scranton and Greensburg.
Names of former Harrisburg bishops will be removed from buildings
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Harrisburg Bishop Ronald W. Gainer Aug. 1 released information from the diocese’s own internal investigation on child sex abuse, including a list of the names of 71 clergy, both dead and alive, accused of abuse. He also ordered removal from buildings, halls and rooms the names of former diocesan bishops going back to 1947. Bishop Ronald The name ban extends to anyW. Gainer one who appears on the diocese’s list and has been accused of sexual misconduct, and also to any position of honor in the diocese given those named.
LCWR expresses ‘profound sadness’ over AP story on abuse of nuns globally
SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Leadership Conference of Women Religious issued a statement in response to an Associated Press story describing rape and abuse of nuns by priests worldwide. The statement expressed “profound sadness over the sexual abuse by clergy endured by Catholic sisters in many parts of the world” and called for “the end of a culture that ignores or tolerates sexual abuse of Catholic sisters or any other adult or minor perpetuated by those in positions of trust in the church community.” The statement also urges any sisters who have experienced sexual abuse to report the abuse to the authorities, both clerical and civil. It also encourages them “to seek appropriate assistance since no one should have to suffer the long-term effects of abuse alone.” “We understand that reporting abuse requires courage and fortitude, however, bringing this horrific practice to light may be the only way that sexual abuse by those in positions of trust in the church community will be put to an end,” it added. LCWR does not have any data on sexual abuse against Catholic sisters in the United States, according to the statement, which the Silver Spring-
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Food for Poor appeals attorney general’s order on donation percentages
WASHINGTON – The attorney general of California intends to revoke the charity registration in his state for Food for the Poor, a Florida-based Christian charity that gives food, clothing and medicine to aid the poor in Central and South American countries. Attorney General Xavier Becerra has ordered Food for the Poor to “cease and desist” from using a statement about the percentage of donations that go to direct aid. Becerra has called the statement “unfair and deceptive.” Called the “95% Statement,” it says that over 95 percent of all donations to Food for the Poor go directly to programs, and less than 5 percent go to fundraising and administrative costs. According to Becerra’s order, Food for the Poor also has inflated the value of medicinal donations it has received by using U.S. market prices to value the pharmaceuticals. Food for the Poor has appealed the decision. Catholic News Service
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Pope prays Blessed Paul VI will intercede for ‘church he loved so much’
VATICAN CITY – On the 40th anniversary of the death of Blessed Paul VI, Pope Francis went into the grotto under St. Peter’s Basilica to pray at his predecessor’s simple tomb. The pope who oversaw the last sessions of the Second Vatican Council and began implementing its teachings died Aug. 6, 1978, at Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer residence outside of Rome. He was buried six days later in the basilica’s grotto. Unlike most of popes buried there, his tomb is in the earth – rather than elevated – and is covered with a simple travertine marble slab. Reciting the Angelus prayer Aug. 5 with visitors in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis reminded them of the anniversary and of the fact that he plans to canonize his predecessor Oct. 14. “From heaven may he intercede for the church he loved so much and for peace in the world,” Pope Francis said. He asked the people in the square to join him in a round of applause for “this great pope of modernity.” (CNS photo/Ueslei Marcelino, Reuters)
Chilean bishops acknowledge failures in handling sexual abuse of minors
SANTIAGO, Chile – Chile’s bishops acknowledged they had “failed to fulfill our duty by not listening, believing, attending or accompanying the victims of grave sins” after a five-day meeting to discuss the clergy sexual abuse crisis rocking the country. Bishop Santiago Silva of the Military Diocese of Chile, president of the bishops’ conference, also apologized to abuse survivors for the bishops’ failure to “react in time to the painful sexual abuse and abuse of power and authority” as the general assembly concluded Aug. 3 in Punta de Tralca on the Pacific Coast. He outlined a series of steps the bishops would take as they released “Declaration, Decisions and Commitments of the Bishops Conference of Chile,” a set of national guidelines for responding to abuse allegations. The guidelines were developed during the assembly. Besides asking for forgiveness, the bishops expressed their “repentance” to those who have accompanied the victims: “to their families, to those who have made responsible efforts to seek justice, reparation and purification, and to the hundreds of consecrated persons
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Young people keep vigil in front of Brazil’s Supreme Court in an attempt to influence ministers to vote against the legalization of abortion in 2012 in Brasilia. Brazil’s high court was considering decriminalizing abortion after hearings Aug. 3 and Aug 6. and laypeople who are daily witnesses to the love, mercy and redemption of Christ and who are affected in their ministry because of errors, sins and crimes committed.”
Bishops: UK Supreme Court ruling on withdrawing hydration morally wrong
MANCHESTER, England – Britain’s highest court has ruled that doctors can withdraw food and fluid from patients who are in a vegetative state or minimally conscious without seeking permission from judges. The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom said that it was not necessary to apply for permission from the Court of Protection to dehydrate such patients to death when doctors and family members agreed that death was in their “best interests.” The July 30 ruling, however, was criticized by at least one Catholic bishop. Auxiliary Bishop John Wilson of Westminster said it was morally wrong to withdraw food and fluids from anyone. “Artificial nutrition and hydration ... are not treatment,” said Bishop Wilson in a July 31 statement published on the website of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. “They do not cure anything. “In whatever way they are delivered, food and water for a person in a persistent vegetative state fulfill the same purpose as for any other person. They keep them alive as part of their basic care. They prevent death by malnutrition and dehydration,” he said. “Patients in persistent vegetative states are some of the most vulnerable in our society,” the bishop continued. “It is not an act of compassion to remove their food and drink in order to cause their death. “Equally, it cannot be in patients’ best interests, whatever their level of consciousness, to have their life
intentionally ended,” he added. “Our care for those in such situations is the test of our common humanity and our solidarity with some of the most fragile of our brothers and sisters.”
Contraception feeds violence against women, papal theologian says
SYDNEY – The widespread use of contraception has led to increased violence and aggression against women, the theologian of the papal household said during a mid-July visit to Sydney. Dominican Father Wojciech Giertych, appointed to his position by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, said that the contraceptive mentality has distorted male sexuality, leading to violence toward women. “Contraception is not for women, it’s for men,” Father Giertych told The Catholic Weekly, newspaper of the Sydney archdiocese. “It makes men egoists. It makes many of them degenerates and we’re seeing the consequences of that.” Father Giertych said government statistics in Italy revealed that a woman was murdered every four days from 2009 to 2011. He said more than 80 percent of the perpetrators were sexual partners of the victims, such as boyfriends, husbands or former partners. Even more violence is carried out against women in other countries, he said, pointing to Mexico, where six women are murdered every day, according to reports in L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper. “In the hearts and minds of these men there is the treating of the woman as an object to which he has a right. This deforms the male, freeing him from all responsibility,” Father Giertych said. Catholic News Service
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Indian Catholic leaders protest call to ban sacrament of reconciliation Catholic News Service
NEW DELHI – India’s Catholic Church has led a chorus of protest over a demand to ban the sacrament of reconciliation from the chairwoman of the National Commission for Women. “This demand is absurd and it displays ignorance about the sacrament of confession,” Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, president of Catholic Bishops Conference of India, told Catholic News Service July 27. “The tenor of the demand shows they do not understand the meaning nor do they have respect for religious freedom,” the cardinal said following wide media coverage of the July 26 demand from Rekha Sharma, commission chairwoman. Sharma said that “priests pressure women into telling their secrets,” noting that the commission had heard testimony about one such case. “There must be many more such cases and what we have right now is just a tip of the iceberg,” she said in calling for the end of the church practice of confessing sins. The call came after five Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church priests in Kerala state were suspended from ministry, including at least two who had sex with a married woman. The scandal erupted when an audio clip of a telephone conversation, purportedly between the woman’s husband and a church official, went viral on social media in June, ucanews.com reported. It was alleged a priest had sex with the woman after threatening to break the seal of confession to reveal to her husband that she had confessed to having a relationship with a priest in her parish before she was married. The priest hearing the confession allegedly video recorded having sex with the woman and passed the information and video to another priest, who also used it have sex with the woman.
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Historian: Medieval reform proposals can help current abuse crisis Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
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This loss of a proper fear of the Lord and his final judgment is linked to a lack of accountability, and it ‘seems to be one of the root causes behind the current crisis.’ C. Colt Anderson Church historian
obligation of laypeople to step in when church leaders fail to reform themselves, said C. Colt Anderson, a theologian and expert in church reformers. The saint realized that sexually abusive clerics and those who failed to stop them were “more afraid to be despised by men than to be judged by God,” Anderson wrote in an in-depth article on St. Peter Damian. This loss of a proper fear of the Lord and his final judgment is linked to a lack of accountability, and it “seems to be one of the root causes behind the current crisis,” he wrote in the article titled, “When Magisterium Becomes Imperium: Peter Damian on the Accountability of Bishops for Scandal.” Although his article was published in 2004 in the journal Theological Studies, Anderson told Catholic News Service that he believes the article’s conclusions still hold true today. The only real change is his opinion that current church structures are not adequate, and civil law is required to prosecute offenders and those who cover up their crimes. “Further, their moral formation in the seminary is largely for their roles as confessors, which right-
ly emphasizes mercy. Of course, Gregory the Great wrote that one can be forgiven and still be unfit for office,” Anderson told CNS in an email response to questions July 31. As the church continues to face revelations of abuse and negligence even by some of its highestranking members, looking at how these problems were effectively handled in the past is key for understanding the root causes and needed solutions, Anderson has said. In fact, of the many diverse factors that have fueled the abuse crisis, “its roots lie more in the late 11th century than in the 1960s,” Anderson told CNS. For example, now-Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick “was not known for being a liberal or progressive bishop,” Anderson said, which means the problem wasn’t political, but that “he forgot that his role was to serve the needs of others and came to believe that the role of others was to serve his needs.” Anderson said he believes “Pope Francis is doing an excellent job at addressing the underlying clericalism and triumphalism that fueled the crisis and the cover-up. The need to present the church as perfect and to prevent scandal is a large part of the problem.” St. Peter Damian, born in Italy in 1007, “attacked all forms of sexual abuse committed by the clergy,” whether it was the abuse of minors or adult men and women, Anderson wrote in his 2004 essay. The saint saw immoral behavior among clergy as more than just an abuse of power, but an “abuse of power inherent in incest,” Anderson wrote. If a bishop or priest is the groom of the bride – the church – and if all those reborn in the church are his spiritual children, the saint argued, then the betrayal of abuse amounts to a kind of “spiritual incest,” which demands harsher punishment than
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Sunday readings
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 KINGS 19:4-8 Elijah went a day’s journey into the desert, until he came to a broom tree and sat beneath it. He prayed for death saying: “This is enough, O Lord! Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.” He lay down and fell asleep under the broom tree, but then an angel touched him and ordered him to get up and eat. Elijah looked and there at his head was a hearth cake and a jug of water. After he ate and drank, he lay down again, but the angel of the Lord came back a second time, touched him, and ordered, “Get up and eat, else the journey will be too long for you!” He got up, ate, and drank; then strengthened by that food, he walked 40 days and 40 nights to the mountain of God, Horeb. PSALM 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall be ever in my mouth. Let my soul glory in the Lord; the lowly will hear me and be glad. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. Glorify the Lord with me, Let us together extol
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his name. I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. Look to him that you may be radiant with joy. And your faces may not blush with shame. When the afflicted man called out, the Lord heard, and from all his distress he saved him. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him and delivers them. Taste and see how good the Lord is; blessed the man who takes refuge in him. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. EPHESIANS 4:30—5:2 Brothers and sisters: Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were sealed for the day of redemption. All bitterness, fury, anger, shouting, and reviling must be removed from you, along with all malice. And be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Christ. So be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.
JOHN 6:41-51 The Jews murmured about Jesus because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,” and they said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? Then how can he say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” Jesus answered and said to them, “Stop murmuring among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day. It is written in the prophets: They shall all be taught by God. Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
When you go to Mass, are you hungry for Jesus?
n our Gospel this Sunday, Our Lord declares, “I am that bread of life ... I am the living bread which came down from heaven ....” The Jews are grumbling against Jesus, we are told, because they want Him to give worldly bread for their bodies. “They were far from being fit for that heavenly bread, and did not hunger for it,” St. Augustine tells us. “For they had not that hunger of the inner man.” Jesus did not come to satisfy our outward hunger; He wants to feed the inner man. How do I acquire this hunger of the inner man, this spiritual hunger for spiritual bread? “No man can come to me,” Jesus says, “except the Father which has sent me ....” Spiritual hunger is a gift that we receive from God. We Father Joseph cannot hunger inwardly for Previtali Jesus on our own. We can only acquire inward hunger for Him by begging our Father to draw us to Him. How does the Father draw us? “It is written in the prophets, and they shall be all taught of God. Every
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man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes to me.” St. Augustine explains that “we do not come to Christ, by running, or walking, but by believing, not by the motion of the body, but the will of the mind ... Delight you in the Lord, and He will give you your heart’s desire. There is a certain craving of the heart, to which that heavenly bread is pleasant.” Without being taught by God, without the truth of our Catholic faith, we cannot receive the craving of the heart to which the Eucharist corresponds. “Through faith the soul is united to God,” St. Thomas Aquinas says, “and by it there is between the soul and God a union akin to marriage.” United to God by the marriage of the true faith, we begin to desire the pleasure of this spiritual marriage. “Have the bodily senses their pleasures, and has not the soul hers?” Augustine exclaims. “Give me one who loves, who longs, who burns, who sighs for the source of his being and his eternal home; and he will know what I mean.” God gives this spiritual hunger to those who confess the true faith, which centers on Jesus Himself. “The Father draws to the Son those who believe on the Son, as thinking that He has God for His Father,” Augustine explains. By believing that the man Jesus is true God, begotten eternally of the Father, we confess simultaneously the truths of the Trinity and
Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, August 13: Monday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Saints Pontian, pope and martyr and Hippolytus, priest and martyr. Ez 1:2-5, 24-28c. PS 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14. See 2 Thes 2:14. Mt 17:22-27. Tuesday, August 14: Memorial of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, priest and martyr. Ez 2:8—3:4. PS 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131. Mt 11:29ab. Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14. Wednesday, August 15: Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Vigil. 1 CHR 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2. Ps 132:6-7, 9-10, 13-14. 1 Cor 15:54b-57. Lk 11:28. Lk 11:27-28.
Time. Prv 9:1-6. Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. Eph 5:15-20. Jn 6:56. Jn 6:51-58. Monday, August 20: Memorial of St. Bernard, abbot and doctor. Ez 24:15-23. Dt 32:18-19, 20, 21. Mt 5:3. Mt 19:16-22. Tuesday, August 21: Memorial of St. Pius X, pope. Ez 28:1-10. Dt 32:26-27ab, 27cd-28, 30, 35cd-36ab. 2 Cor 8:9. Mt 19:23-30. Wednesday, August 22: Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Ez 34:1-11. Ps 23:13a, 3b-4, 5, 6. Heb 4:12. Mt 20:1-16.
Thursday, August 16: Thursday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Stephen of Hungary. Ez 12:1-12. Ps 78:56-57, 58-59, 61-62. Ps 119:135. Mt 18:21–19:1.
Thursday, August 23: Thursday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Rose of Lima, virgin. Ez 36:23-28. Ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 1819. Ps 95:8. Mt 22:1-14.
Friday, August 17: Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Ez 16:1-15, 60, 63 or Ez 16:59-63. Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6. See 1 Thes 2:13. Mt 19:3-12.
Friday, August 24: Feast of St. Bartholomew, Apostle. Rv 21:9b-14. Ps 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18. Jn 1:49b. Jn 1:45-51.
Saturday, August 18: Saturday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Ez 18:1-10, 13b, 30-32. Ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19. See Mt 11:25. Mt 19:13-15.
Saturday, August 25: Saturday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Louis of France, King and St. Joseph Calasanz, priest. Ez 43:1-7ab. Ps 85:9ab and 10, 11-12, 13-14. Mt 23:9b, 10b. Mt 23:1-12.
Sunday, August 19: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary
of the Incarnation. When we confess these truths, we begin to hunger for the Eucharist and we understand that Jesus has the power really to change bread into his Body and wine into his Blood. Our faith in Jesus leads the baptized to confess also our sins to Him in the Sacrament of Penance, in which He makes us his living members so that we can receive his food. “Many a one receives from the altar, and perishes in receiving; eating and drinking his own damnation, as said the Apostle,” Augustine preaches. “To eat then the heavenly bread spiritually, is to bring to the altar an innocent mind.” When our minds are made innocent by faith and charity, then the inner man becomes hungry and desires deeply to eat inwardly of Christ. This inward eating satisfies eternally our spiritual hunger by granting us eternal life. “None then that eat of this bread, shall die,” Augustine explains. “But we speak of the power of the sacrament, not the visible sacrament itself; of the inward, not of the outward eater.” If you want to be hungry for Jesus at Mass, open your mind to Him by faith and confess your sins to Him in Penance. Then you will begin to delight in the spiritual pleasures of your marriage with God. Father Joseph Previtali is currently studying at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.
pope francis Faith is a relationship, not a set of rules
VATICAN CITY – Doing God’s will means first of all believing in Jesus and allowing love for him to translate into love for one’s neighbors, Pope Francis said. The Gospel story of the multiplication of loaves demonstrates the concern Jesus showed for people’s daily physical needs, the pope said, but the passages that follow show how “it is even more important to cultivate our relationship with him, reinforcing our faith in him who is the ‘bread of life’ come to satisfy our hunger for truth, our hunger for justice, our hunger for love.” Before reciting the Angelus prayer Aug. 5, Pope Francis offered a commentary on the day’s Gospel reading, John 6:24-35, which tells of the crowds fed by Jesus following him and asking him what it means to do “the works of God.” Jesus answers, “This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.” With his reply, the pope said, Jesus wants the crowd to take a further step in faith and “ask themselves the meaning of the miracle and not just profit from it.” Catholic News Service
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Standing on new borders
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particularly powerful Gospel story recounts Jesus meeting with a Syro-Phoenician woman. Central to that story is where their encounter takes place. It takes place on the borders of Samaria. For Jesus, Samaria was a foreign territory, both in terms of ethnicity and religion. In his encounter with this woman, he is standing at the edges, the borders, of how he then understood himself religiously. I believe that this is where we are standing today as Christians, on new borders in terms of relating to other FATHER ron religions, not least to our rolheiser Islamic brothers and sisters. The single most important agenda item for our churches for the next 50 years will be the issue of relating to other religions, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, indigenous religions in the Americas and Africa, and various forms, old and new, of paganism and New Age. Simply stated, if all the violence stemming from religious extremism hasn’t woken us yet then we are dangerously asleep. We have no choice. The world has become one village, one community, one family, and unless we begin to understand and accept each other more deeply we will never be a world at peace. Moreover for us, as Christians, the threat of hatred and violence coming from other religions isn’t the main reason we are called to understand non-Christian believers more compassionately. The deeper reason is that the God we honor calls us to do that. Our God calls us to recognize and welcome all sincere believers into our hearts as
Letters End cruelty in public speech
I am so glad, relieved to read Father Rolheiser’s column, “A slur that cuts deep” (July 26). We need this strong defense of our human worth, especially his defense of people called “losers” and similar slurs, the marginalized people who remind him of the ostracized lepers of biblical times. There has been too much cruelty in public speaking in recent times. It must stop! I consider it a form of violence. Sometimes I worry that courtesy, decency, and kindness are under threat in today’s angrily polarized society. We can practice the love Jesus teaches us by treating every person we talk to, or talk about, or write about, with the kindness, consideration, and respect that he would show them. Thank you, Father Rolheiser! Suzy Brown San Carlos
Porziuncola Nuova history
The National Shrine of St. Francis is a North Beach gem. I enjoyed reading about its visitors (“A summer day at St. Francis’ shrine,” July 26) but was disappointed in Catholic San Francisco’s failure to recognize that a layperson – Angela Alioto – was the driving force to build the Porziuncola Nuova chapel. If it weren’t for her, I doubt San Francisco would have this special place. Laura Higbie San Francisco
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brothers and sisters in faith. Jesus makes this abundantly clear most everywhere in his message, and at times makes it uncomfortably explicit: Who are my brothers and sisters? It is those who hear the word of God and keep it. … It is not necessarily those who say Lord, Lord, who enter the kingdom of heaven but those who do the will of God on earth. Who can deny that many nonChristians do the will of God here on earth? But what about the extremism, violence, and perverse expressions of religion we frequently see in other religions? Can we really consider these religions as true, given the awful things done in their name? All religions are to be judged, as Huston Smith submits, by their highest expressions and their saints, not by their perversions. This is true too for Christianity. We hope that others will judge us not by our darkest moments or by the worst acts ever done by Christians in the name of religion, but rather by all the good Christians have done in history and by our saints. We owe that same understanding to other religions, and all of them in their essence and in their best expressions call us to what’s one, good, true, and beautiful - and all of them have produced great saints. But what of Christ’s uniqueness? What about Christ’s claim that he is the (only) way, truth, and life and that nobody can come to God except through him? Throughout its 2,000-year history, Christian theology has never backed away from the truth and exclusivity of that claim, save for a number of individual theologians whose views have not been accepted by the churches. So how can we view the truth of other religions in the light of Christ’s claim that he is the only way to the Father? Christian theology (certainly this is true for
Roman Catholic theology) has always accepted and proactively taught that the mystery of Christ is much larger than what can be observed in the visible, historical enfolding of Christianity and the Christian churches in history. Christ is larger than our churches and operates too outside of our churches. He is still telling the church what Jesus once told his mother: “I must be about my Father’s business.” Formerly we expressed this by affirming that the body of Christ, the full body of believers, has both a visible and invisible element. In explicit, baptized believers we see the visible body of Christ. However at the same time we acknowledge that there are countless others who for all kinds of inculpable reasons have not been explicitly baptized and do not profess an explicit faith in Christ, but who by the goodness of their hearts and actions must be considered as kin to us in the faith. This may come as a surprise to some but, in fact, the dogmatic teaching of the Roman Catholic Church is that sincere persons in other religions can be saved without becoming Christians, and to teach the contrary is heresy. This is predicated on an understanding of the God whom we worship as Christians. The God whom Jesus incarnated wills the salvation of all people and is not indifferent to the sincere faith of billions of people throughout thousands of years. We dishonor our faith when we teach anything different. All of us are God’s children. There is in the end only one God and that God is the father of all of us – and that means all of us, irrespective of religion. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.
How to live your life: All things Catholic Rick Flynn
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or those Catholics who think being a Catholic means only attending Mass on Sunday, there can be more to being a Catholic. Much more! In fact, you could live your life all things Catholic from being born in a Catholic hospital to being buried in a Catholic cemetery – and all things Catholic in between.
Inside your parish
Receive the sacraments: Receive the Eucharist as often as possible. Go to confession on a regular basis or at least monthly. Receive the anointing of the sick if you are seriously ill, infirmed or aged. Receive holy orders if you are called to be a deacon or priest. Get married if you are called to the married life. Fully participate in your parish: Attend Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation. Volunteer at Mass as greeter, usher, lector, extraordinary minister of holy Communion, altar server, choir member, instrumentalist. Get involved in parish activities such as parish council, religious education, Bible study group, prayer group. Get involved in parish social ministries seeking to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless. Go to parish social functions be it coffee hour or annual picnic.
Outside your parish
Attend Catholic schools: Attend a Catholic elementary school, a Catholic high school, and a Catholic university. Work at Catholic organizations: Work at the Archdiocese of San Francisco, a Catholic parish, a Catholic mission, a Catholic elementary school, a Catholic high school, a Catholic university, a Catholic hospital, a Catholic business. Volunteer and donate to Catholic organizations: Give time and money to groups including Catholic Charities, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and St. Anthony Foundation. Join Catholic organizations: Consider
membership with groups including the Knights of Columbus, the Legion of Mary, the Young Catholic Professionals (SF Chapter), the youth ministry (ages 13-17), and the young adult ministry (ages 18-40). Read Catholic books: Read the Catholic Bible, New Revised Standard Version – Catholic Edition, the Catechism of the Catholic Church and spiritual classics such as “The Imitation of Christ” by Thomas a Kempis. Engage Catholic media: Read Catholic San Francisco newspaper, listen to Relevant Radio (1260 AM), watch EWTN (Comcast: Channel 229). Access Catholic websites: Archdiocese of San Francisco: www.sfarchdiocese.org; Vatican: www.vatican.va; U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: www.usccb.org; Catholic News Service: www. catholicnews.com. Visit Catholic places: Visit the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, the National Shrine of St. Francis, Mission Dolores, St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, Menlo Park. Attend Catholic events: Attend the annual Walk for Life West Coast, the San Francisco Rosary Rally, the Catholic Charismatic Convention, and World Youth Day (every three years in a different country). Go on Catholic retreats: Pray, hear talks at sites including Mercy Center, Burlingame, Santa Sabina Center, San Rafael, Vallombrosa Center, Menlo Park. Go on Catholic pilgrimages: Consider trips to holy sites including the Holy Land, Rome, Lourdes, Fatima, Guadalupe. Living your life – all things Catholic – will take you deeper into your Catholic faith, and be a constant reminder of your Catholic faith in an increasingly secular world. Rick Flynn is a parishioner at St. Ignatius Parish.
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Launch of the program of the Festival of Families Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin delivered this message on July 19 at Croke Park, Dublin, at the launch of the program for the Festival of Families. The Festival will take place during the World Meeting of Families, Aug. 21-26. The article was posted on the website of the Dublin archdiocese at www.dublindiocese.ie/launch-of-the-programme-ofthe-festival-of-families/.
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here is great interest in the visit of Pope Francis to Ireland for the World Meeting of Families. The motives of that interest are varied but all of them are in some way linked with Pope Francis. Not just that Pope Francis is coming to Dublin, but perhaps much more about who is Pope Francis? What does he hope to attain through Archbishop coming to Diarmuid Dublin? Martin At the end of September 1979, St. Pope John Paul II paid a historic visit to Ireland. By any standards, it merited the term “historic visit.” The “Papal Visit” was to become legendary in Ireland. It was the sort of event that grandparents speak about to their grandchildren still today. The events around that papal visit constituted the largest ever gathering of people in the history of Ireland. Its impact was massive and enduring. Viewed with the eyes of the time it was not just a successful visit but also a real high point in the history of the Catholic Church in Ireland. How is that visit seen with the eyes of today? The enthusiasm and approval of the 1979 event has changed. From being seen just as a high point in the history of Irish Catholicism, it is looked on now as a turning point and the beginning in time of a gradual decline of a particular role of the Catholic Church Ireland. What can Pope Francis do and
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People pose July 19 during the launch of the World Meeting of Families in Dublin’s Croke Park. Pope Francis will travel to Ireland Aug. 25-26 for the end of the gathering.
Pope Francis is for many hard to understand, especially in an Ireland where people have had a sort of black-and-white understanding of the realities of faith. Sins were sins and that was it. what can he say to this changed modern Ireland? The expectations of Pope Francis’ visit vary. There is enthusiasm. Within days of opening registration, the bookings for all the major events of Pope Francis’ visit were sold out. Very large numbers will come from abroad and this event will be a way to highlight modern Ireland to the world. This is a great opportunity. What do people expect from the visit? Many would come out to see any Pope who was coming to Ireland. For others Pope Francis has a special appeal. He is a sort of global religious star whose simple humanity and human warmth attracts. Pope Francis, who is over 80 years old, appears as a modern pope and people like that. Pope Francis is for many hard to
understand, especially in an Ireland where people have had a sort of black-and-white understanding of the realities of faith. Sins were sins and that was it. Many find it hard to understand a pope who can reaffirm doctrines and moral norms and yet admit that people live in gray areas and that that does not exclude them. One of the great attractions of Pope Francis is how he shows us that he can live in a world where faith seems marginal and yet manage to touch hearts. He finds ways in which he can win hearts for what the teaching of Jesus involves, not through imposing and judging, but through winning and attracting. That is his real talent. Pope Benedict had said that the challenge for the church in many western countries is: “to witness to
God in a world that has problems finding him.” Pope Francis comes to Ireland as a man of God, one whose whole life is captivated with God of love as revealed in Jesus Christ. Pope Francis recognizes change. He realizes that there many dimensions in the long tradition of Irish Catholicism and Irish missionary endeavor that have diminished. He recognizes that there is no way in which the realities of the past can be replicated today. The visit of Pope Francis will not be a re-hash of 1979. He also recognizes that something has been lost along the way and most of us can identify with that. We all have an interest in working together to identify the values that will hold our Ireland together for the future, values around family, values around justice, values about economy, values around tolerance and values about caring. These are the questions that will be looked at the three-day event. The Festival of Families aims at celebrating family life. Family is central to any society. Family is the backbone of intergenerational solidarity and of the passing on of values from one generation to the next. Families face challenges. Families face challenges and at times shame all of us who watch them face difficulties while society fails them. Pope Francis will go to the Capuchin Food Centre especially to be with families who are homeless or living in hotel rooms and who come to the center every day because they could never have a regular meal together otherwise. Pope Francis will not work miracles. In a visit of little more than 36 hours, it will not be possible for him to design a new road map for the Irish church. At most he can offer the Irish church the instruments on which that new road map can be drawn. We all have to understand, however, that while you can still draw maps on paper, maps today are different. They are interactive and constantly being updated. Pope Francis will challenge the Irish church to be authentically the church in a changed culture.
DiNardo: Church must address its leaders’ ‘moral failures of judgment’ FROM PAGE 1
God. Both the abuses themselves, and the fact that they have remained undisclosed for decades, have caused great harm to people’s lives and represent grave moral failures of judgment on the part of church leaders.” To determine a course of action for the USCCB to take, Cardinal DiNardo said he convened the bishops’ Executive Committee. “This meeting was the first of many among bishops that will extend into our Administrative Committee meeting in September and our general assembly in November,” he explained. “All of these discussions will be oriented toward discerning the right course of action for the USCCB.” Such work will “take some time,” but he laid out four points to be acted upon immediately: – He encouraged each bishop in their diocese “to respond with compassion and justice to anyone who has been sexually abused or harassed by anyone in the church. We should do whatever we can to accompany them.” – He urged anyone who has experienced sexual assault or harassment by anyone in the church to come forward. “Where the incident may rise to
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Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is seen June 13 at the opening of the bishops’ annual spring assembly in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. the level of a crime, please also contact local law enforcement.” – The USCCB “will pursue the many questions surrounding Archbishop McCarrick’s conduct to the full extent of its authority; and where that au-
thority finds its limits, the conference will advocate with those who do have the authority. One way or the other, we are determined to find the truth in this matter.” – “Finally, we bishops recognize that a spiritual conversion is needed as we seek to restore the right relationship among us and with the Lord. Our church is suffering from a crisis of sexual morality. The way forward must involve learning from past sins.” Cardinal DiNardo said the failures of judgment by church leaders in the case of Archbishop McCarrick “raise serious questions.” “Why weren’t these allegations of sins against chastity and human dignity disclosed when they were first brought to church officials?” he asked. “Why wasn’t this egregious situation addressed decades sooner and with justice? What must our seminaries do to protect the freedom to discern a priestly vocation without being subject to misuse of power?” In conclusion, he asked all to “pray for God’s wisdom and strength for renewal as we follow St. Paul’s instruction: ‘Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.’
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McCarrick: Many urge more church accountability after revelations FROM PAGE 1
With his resignation July 28 from the College of Cardinals, McCarrick retains the title of archbishop. However, “his prompt reduction canonically to the laity should be strongly deliberated,” said a July 28 statement by Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth, Texas. “As each day passes, we learn that the former cardinal not only allegedly perpetrated abuse against minors but also against subordinates including priests, seminarians and members of the laity. The evil effects of these actions were multiplied by the fact that financial settlements were arranged with victims without transparency or restrictions on the former cardinal’s ministry,” Bishop Olson said. “Justice also requires that all of those in church leadership who knew of the former cardinal’s alleged crimes and sexual misconduct and did nothing be held accountable for their refusal to act thereby enabling others to be hurt.” Trinity Washington University president Patricia McGuire, in a July 27 blog posting titled “Cardinal Sins,” reflected on the allegations against Archbishop McCarrick through the prism of her mother’s late-in-life dread that she may have exposed her young sons to abusive clergy. “As the tawdry, tragic stories of priests committing appalling acts of abuse spread from Boston to Philadelphia and parishes and dioceses nationwide, the mothers of the altar boys, in particular, suffered silent grief and suspicion, leading to a sense of betrayal and then alienation from the church to which they had devoted unquestioning loyalty throughout their lives,” McGuire said. In the year before McGuire’s mother died, “the abuse scandal left her bitter about the hypocrisy of priests and bishops; she wondered aloud about her own father, my grandfather who, as a young man in Milan (Italy), had been in the seminary for a while. He left the seminary and came to America and, in my mother’s memory, he would not set foot inside a church. ‘All’s right between God and me,’ he would say to her,” she wrote. “The emergence of the American abuse scandal made her wonder if something had happened to her father even so long ago in the Italian seminary; again, no evidence, but the scandal created more doubts, caused more anguish, like a rapidly spreading toxic algae bloom.” McGuire added, “The church’s response to the massive sex abuse crisis has always seemed to lack a certain level of deep, urgent understanding of the gravity of the sin against children and other victims. Certainly, words have cascaded, gestures made, money paid out. But, somehow, the words and gestures and checks have all seemed more selfprotective of the organization than truly penitential at the most profound level.” “As a father, I am appalled and angry. As a Catholic, I feel ashamed and betrayed,” said a statement from John Carr, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at
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Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, center, and Australian Cardinal George Pell, right, arrive for the closing Mass of the jubilee Year of Mercy in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Nov. 20, 2016. Georgetown University, who had worked closely with Archbishop McCarrick on various policy initiatives when Carr worked at USCCB headquarters in Washington. “As a friend of former Cardinal McCarrick, I am devastated, especially for the victims and their families,” Carr added. “I pray that these horrific developments can help end this evil of clerical sex abuse and dismantle the culture that permitted it within our family of faith.” Msgr. Owen Campion, former editor of the national newspaper Our Sunday Visitor and now chaplain of OSV Newsweekly, said he felt dismay, revulsion, heartsickness, anger and – for once – weariness upon learning of the accusations lodged against Archbishop McCarrick. “I am weary of trying to make excuses, of trying to find something to say,” Msgr. Campion wrote July 18. “I am tired of stepping away from restrooms in restaurants until a youth has emerged. I am tired of watching my every move and calculating my every word if a young person is present. I am tired of calling my diocese when I have been invited to preach in another location, asking for a letter stating that I have never been in trouble.” He added that he is tired of making the point that “sexual abuse is a vast problem in our culture,” because he is “assailed for concocting excuses.” “But I make it again,” he said. Sexual abuse “hardly only involves clergy. Our
society’s insanity when it comes to satisfying erotic desires in the most selfish of circumstances, and our increasing disregard for morality in any setting, is sickening and frightening because of where it is taking us,” Msgr. Campion said. “We must face this fact.” Msgr. Campion said, “One excuse that I have offered with increasing lack of enthusiasm is the Dallas ‘Charter,’ a policy created by U.S. bishops to right the wrongs. The charter, whether it is followed or not, spoke of children, but attention must also be given to the wide sexual abuse of adults.” He added, “A seminarian would have to be very brave to accuse an archbishop, let alone a cardinal. The seminarian, however persuasive his story, would not enjoy the benefit of the doubt. Quite likely, he could forget about being a priest.” In Baltimore, Archbishop William E. Lori said allegations against Archbishop McCarrick “have shaken our church to its core.” “That we find ourselves in this place again is tragic and heart wrenching – for the victims; for their families and friends; for all Catholics; and for our neighbors whom we are called to serve in truth and love,” he said in a July 30 statement. He said he strongly supports Pope Francis’ response to Archbishop McCarrick’s case and other recent cases, including accepting the resignation of several Chilean bishops, and praised the pope’s “determination to hold accountable all those who have sexually abused others or failed to report allegations of sexual abuse, regardless of their position or rank in the church.” Building on those efforts “to strengthen the accountability of bishops,” Archbishop Lori said, “some bishops in the United States are discussing proposals to do the same, (including) measures that can be implemented in each diocese to ensure that victims can easily report allegations of abuse by any member of the church, including bishops, and can confidently expect that those allegations will get a full and fair hearing.” “I will contribute actively to those discussions and will fully implement their results in the Archdiocese of Baltimore to best protect those in our local Catholic community and all those we serve,” he said, pledging his “continued diligent oversight of the measures currently in place” and renewing his commitment “to do all I can to build a culture of accountability and transparency.” In a message addressed to “My Fellow Catholics” posted July 31 on the website of the Catholic journal First Things, Christopher Tollefsen said he has informed his local bishop that he will no longer contribute to diocesan appeals for financial contributions until he is convinced that the bishop is working toward an independently led investigation into the McCarrick matter and that “every bishop who is judged negligent by this tribunal be removed from office.” Tollefsen is a senior fellow of the Witherspoon Institute and a professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. Catholic San Francisco contributed.
From the pulpit, priests address allegations against McCarrick Carol Zimmermann
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WASHINGTON – For his homilies on the weekend of July 21-22, Father Edward Looney, administrator of two rural Wisconsin parishes, planned to preach about ways to include God on summer vacation. His rough outline was scribbled on Post-it notes. But during the Saturday evening Mass when he heard the opening lines of the first reading from Jeremiah, the priest switched gears, deciding he had to say something about sexual abuse allegations against now former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington. “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the flock of my pasture,” the passage from Jeremiah 23 begins. It goes on to deliver harsh words for shepherds who have not cared for their sheep and says they will be punished for their evil deeds. The message was not lost on Father Looney, who
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Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick is seen during the opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for Life at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Jan. 18. was ordained in 2015 and is frequently a guest on EWTN Radio’s “Morning Glory” program. “I thought about it and when I got to the ambo I
knew it was a game-time decision” for a new homily, he told Catholic News Service. So, for the 4 p.m. Mass July 21 at St. Peter and St. Hubert Parish in Rosiere, Wisconsin, and subsequent Masses there and at St. Francis and St. Mary Catholic Church about 10 minutes away in Brussels, the priest linked the Old Testament passage with the current situation in the church. He urged parishioners to pray for all affected by recent abuse allegations, for anyone who had been see from the pulpit, page 18
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Promethean medical temptations
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uperheroes attract us. From Greek gods to Superman and Spiderman, our fascination with the awesome deeds of superheroes beckons us to become masters of our own destiny. Yet even as we enjoy the fantasy of acquiring Promethean powers to combat our enemies and conquer evil, we have legitimate misgivings about mere mortals taking on godlike powers in real life. We are concerned about those who play with fire just like Prometheus did, at the risk of harm and great destruction. Today, as modern medicine tries to rebuff death and control our humanity in ever more sophisticated ways, new temptations arise that challenge us to choose between life and death, between living in reality and living in a fanfather tadeusz tasy world where we elevate pacholczyk ourselves as “masters of our own destiny.” We encounter these Promethean temptations today in the expanding fields of reproductive medicine and infertility. We may be drawn to the idea of “manufacturing” children through in vitro fertilization and related forms of assisted reproductive technologies. By producing and manipulating our children in laboratory glassware, however, we cross a critical line and sever our obedience to the giver of life. We assume the role of master over, rather than recipients of, our own offspring. We allow our children to be mistreated as so many embryonic tokens – with some being frozen in liquid nitrogen and others being discarded as biomedical waste. We take on the seemingly divine role of creating another human being and reigning supreme over his or her destiny. We are tempted toward this same type of Promethean mastery at the other end of life. While we recognize that we cannot avoid death, we may be troubled and vexed by the possibility of a protracted and painful dying process. We may decide that the best answer is to “take charge” of the situation and move into the driver’s seat, resolutely calling the final shots ourselves. By ending life “on our own terms” through physician-assisted suicide, we hope to steer around the sufferings and agonies of the dying process. Yet suicide clearly goes against the grain of the kind of creatures we are, creatures intended for life, not death. The temptation that flashes before us when we consider suicide is the fantasy of becoming “master” over our destiny by arrogating to ourselves
making sense out of bioethics
The ever-expanding powers of biomedicine call us to careful ethical reflection and discernment, so we do not fall prey to the temptation of seeing ourselves as masters, rather than collaborators with God, our inalienable source of life and being. direct power over life and death. We begin to accept the falsehood that we are uniquely in charge of our own destiny, and can remake or destroy ourselves as if we were gods. It is but a short step, then, for us to take further powers unto ourselves, lording it over the fate and destiny of others through activities like euthanasia, direct abortion, and human embryonic stem cell research. Although we are creatures intended for life, we may not be entirely clear about how we came to possess that life. We sense how we have been cast headlong into existence without asking for it, and we know, with certainty, that we did not create ourselves or have any role in bringing ourselves into being. The fact that we were created entirely apart from our own will means that our existence has been intentionally chosen by another. The goodness and beauty of our life has been independently conferred on us by one who has radically willed our personal existence. Because that existence is good and beautiful, it ought always to be treated as such, and never directly violated. The goodness and beauty of the human life we have received is also connected to the gift of our masculinity or femininity. Yet here we also face the temptation of Promethean mastery as we imagine we can become the opposite sex, or that we needn’t be either male or female, but can be any of dozens of different “gender identities.” We engage in the fantasy that our embodied nature is fluid and malleable,
and that we can vanquish our birth sex, remaking ourselves through the gender bending powers of medicine and science. But the damage that this fantasy can wreak in a short space of time – the hormones, the surgeries, the irreversible decisions and mutilated bodies – is not trivial. The lives of many thousands of individuals, convinced they have become masters of their own identities, have already been irretrievably altered or ruined, often with the assistance of other medical or political masters. The ever-expanding powers of biomedicine call us to careful ethical reflection and discernment, so we do not fall prey to the temptation of seeing ourselves as masters, rather than collaborators with God, our inalienable source of life and being. Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and serves as the director of education, The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.
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Teach me the secrets of wisdom
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s a young sister I was impressed by a particular psalm in the office book that encouraged taking the long view of things. Before the mountains were born and the earth came to birth, God is and has been God from “eternity to eternity” (Psalm 90). At the time, I was a first year high school teacher of religion and English struggling to prepare for classes, to correct mountains of essays, tests and homework papers, and to adjust to life in a large community of sisters with diverse personalities and gifts. One night in chapel, I found Sister jean myself caught by the line, evans, rsm “Teach me the secrets of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12). There in a moment of great sincerity, I asked God to grant me that gift of wisdom. In the novitiate, our philosophy instructor Sister M. Celeste Rouleau emphasized the importance of personal reflection as a pathway to wisdom. It doesn’t matter if you’re young, she said, you can become wise by reflecting on your experience. Well, it didn’t take me too long to conclude that most
of the secrets of wisdom are revealed in suffering. Later, I saw that my suffering, whatever it was or would become, could be a resource or even a gift, as long as I kept reflecting on my experience. Now with a few more years behind me, I share a few bits of wisdom. Be engaged: I remember the words on a French retreatant’s T-shirt: “J’m engage!” When I saw this, I thought rightly or wrongly that it means, “I’m involved” or “I am committed.” Only recently did I realize that “J’m engage!” is not just a slogan for young people. It’s a way of life, (as they say in Weight Watchers). Stay in the struggle whether it’s within you or outside you. Be bold in your prayer: Ask. Thank. Adore. Reach out. Intercede. Forgive. Be silent: Silence is freedom and discovery. It is a condition of creativity. It is frightening and uncomfortable. Silence is the vacation you give yourself from the expectations of others. Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins sang of silence: “Pipe me to pastures still and be / The music that I care to hear” (“Elected Silence”). When you think nothing is happening in prayer, remember: “Silence is God’s language of love” (St. John of the Cross). Let yourself cry: Taste your tears – bitter, salty or just wet? Are they tears of fear, joy, surprise or anger? Are they tears of sadness over sin, tears of
sorrow at the tragedies and sufferings that befall others? Maybe they’re tears of shame? Peter wept after betraying Jesus, his heart pierced by a dart of love (St. Francis de Sales). No tears? St. Catherine of Siena says God will give you tears of fire, the Spirit’s tears. Think of the other person first, not second: My father had so many things that really annoyed him. One particular gripe was about people with the IGM mentality. Translation: “I’ve got mine.” Thinking of the other is the gift God gives us for the world. Be a source of encouragement and affirmation. Meditate on the Passion: In some way known only to God, accompanying Jesus in his passion is a source of energy, peace and healing. We receive the strength to face our own sufferings, the desire to alleviate the suffering of others, and the invitation to find solace and rest in his wounded side. “In thy wounds I fain would hide; ne’er to be parted from thy side” (Anima Christi). Healing: Remember that healing, like joy, is an unexpected visitor. Why not take some time to figure out your own secrets of wisdom? I’m sure there are many! Mercy Sister Jean Evans ministers in the Capuchin Development Office in Burlingame.
Flowers for Mary: Finding beauty in the backyard
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anet Easter is experiencing Braxton Hicks contractions as she arranges a bouquet in her backyard, and she is unfazed. “I’m having contractions, which is hilarious,” she says, stripping the leaves off a hydrangea in one swift stroke. It’s 80 degrees on a Friday afternoon in a Pittsburgh suburb, and Janet is glowing, her 36-week belly draped in a chambray shirt, her honeycolored hair braided across her head like Heidi. “I don’t really know how this is going to look yet,” she says, tilting her head. “I’m going to Christina make it up as I go.” Capecchi Making it up as she goes is a crucial skill for a perfectionist who will soon be tending to three kids under 3. It’s a far cry from her days as style editor of Verily magazine, when Janet coordinated slick New York City photo shoots and relished in her autonomy. Gardening has helped the 31-year-old stay-at-home mom embrace the journey. “I believe all growth
comes through some pain and sacrifice, and planting a garden teaches you this in a very physical, tactile, human way.” Janet’s personal growth is evidenced by her ability to laugh at the inevitable missteps of a novice gardener. “I tried my hand at sweet peas this year,” she says, pointing to a single bloom. “It was not successful. That’s OK. The dahlias are as big as my head!” The 1-year-old toddles around wearing only a diaper as Janet arranges her bouquet at a workbench by the back door. She tucks mint in around a dahlia and inserts lime green amaranth on opposite ends. Next up is a cream-colored cosmos with an arched stem. “I actually love flowers that are kind of kooky and droopy,” she says. “I’m going to put it on the side to hang out.” The finished product looks like the handiwork of a skilled florist, a soft blend of greens and creams at varied heights. Janet sets the bouquet on an antique mantel, pausing to lament the descending ants and then grabbing some water to offset her contractions. She settles into the swing on her front porch, rocking and reflecting. Her longtime love of flowers recently took on a new enthusiasm when she discovered the Marian theology behind flowers, staying up late one night to devour the University of Dayton’s Internation-
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al Marian Research Institute website, her heart racing. Medieval Christendom knew flowers by their Marian meaning, standing for her spirituality, divine graces, mysteries of the rosary and life with the holy family. Baby’s breath represented Our Lady’s veil; a dandelion, Mary’s bitter sorrows; peonies, Pentecost. But these symbols were largely forgotten once the printing press brought the proper classification of plants to the masses – save for a few remaining names, such as marigold, Mary’s gold. She has since memorized the Marian meaning of each flower in her yard, and she’s quick to look up additional flowers that enter her home. She has written about this passion on her new website, EverEaster.com, and launched a popular Instagram hashtag #everflowerfriday to encourage other Catholic women to “listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers,” in the words of St. Paul of the Cross. For as far as she has come – as a gardener, a mother, a believer – Janet feels she is at the beginning. That thought makes her smile as she swings on her porch, framed by the backlit leaves of a climbing rose bush. Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.
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he thing I remember most about St. Mother Teresa was her joy. I met her three times in my life. Once when we were giving talks on the same program; once at a Vatican seminar on family life, and once when she asked me to give a weeklong retreat to her contemplative novices on joy. She founded two distinct orders, the one she picked for me was her cloistered contemplative community in Northern New Jersey. I was intimidated of course, after all this was FATHER JOHN “the” Mother Teresa, and CATOIR a week is a long time to keep talking, but she gave me courage. I remember a quote of hers: “Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. You give the most when you give joy. God loves a cheerful giver. Never let anything so
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fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.” The retreat went very well, and the sisters took their solemn vows and eventually went on to serve all over the world. Mother always had her contemplatives go out of the convent each day to ask people if they wanted the sisters to pray for anyone in the family. It was a much-appreciated innovation to tradition of cloistered living. I admired her as much as I did C.S. Lewis. Lewis was a Christian writer who had no peer when it came to challenging skeptics and atheists. It may come as a surprise to learn that Clive Staples Lewis was himself an atheist most of his adult life. I never met him, but I admired him greatly. His mysterious conversion from non-belief to such an exemplary level of faith was surely a miracle. I hope it gives hope to many Catholic parents who have seen their sons and daughters fall away from the church. Lewis taught that our goal is to proclaim the reality of the kingdom of God’s love and joy. The secular culture has lost its sense of God, its sense of sin, and its sense of the sacredness of life. Evangelization, Lewis insisted, is more a mat-
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Archbishop convicted of failure to report abuse resigns Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Philip Wilson, who had been found guilty by an Australian court of failing to inform police about child sexual abuse allegations. The Vatican made the announcement July 30. Archbishop Wilson of Adelaide was sentenced to 12 months of house arrest by the Newcastle Lower Court July 3 with another hearing set for Aug. 14 to assess the location of his home detention. The archbishop was convicted in May for failing to report allegations of child sexual abuse by a priest in the 1970s. He stepped aside from his duties in the Adelaide archdiocese May 25 but at the time maintained his title as archbishop. Archbishop Wilson had resisted calls to resign and had said July 4 he would do so only if an appeal of his conviction had failed. However, “there is just too much pain and distress being caused by my maintaining the office of archbishop of Adelaide, especially to the victims of Father (James) Fletcher,” Archbishop Wilson said in a statement released July 30.
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Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide, Australia, leaves the Newcastle Local Court July 3. Pope Francis July 30 accepted the resignation of Archbishop Wilson, who had been found guilty by an Australian court of failing to inform police about child sexual abuse allegations. “I must end this and therefore have decided that
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abused and also for the “perpetrator” to come to a point of repentance, admitting guilt and asking forgiveness of God and others. He said the issue is close to home because a priest had been found guilty of sexual abuse years ago in a neighboring town. Father Looney put his homily on social media, as he often does, and one person who responded thanked him,
saying he had been an abuse victim and hadn’t lost faith in the church, which he still prayed for, but had lost faith in priests. About 700 miles away, the same reading that inspired Father Looney also inspired Father Alek Schrenk’s homily in Butler, Pennsylvania. Father Schrenk, parochial vicar of three small parishes – St. Michael, St. Paul and St. Peter – said that in light of the first reading he didn’t see how he couldn’t address the abuse allega-
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Next, we set off for the city of Delphi via the National Highway. References are courage. to Delphi in connection with Apollo in such litItmade wasworks a homily hethehad prepared, erary as the Iliad, Odyssey, and Oedipus Rex. Upon arrival in Delphi, have he an orientation writing it out to bewe sure had the tour of the city before checking in at our hotel for dinner and an phrasing because he didn’t overnight.correct [B,D] want his10/18, parishioners against Dayto 6: turn Thursday DELPHI / ATHENS Our first stop todayhe is the ruins of Delphi that were church leaders, said. But when once the famed Temple of Apollo. From there, we make a briefitstop at the nearby Theatre, the Athenian he read at the first Mass, he felt Treasury, and the Castalian Spring. We continue to emotional, with what he described as the Museum of Delphi to view some of the treasures. Housed inanger. the museum are the Charioteer (a famous righteous statue), the Naxian Sphinx, and the Statue of Antinoos. “INext, feltwebetrayed as acoach priest,” he our told board our motor and make way to Athens. Upon our arrival there, we enjoy a panoramic CNS. tour, beginning with Hadrian’s Arch and a view of the Royalparishioner Palace, the Stadium, Temple of Zeus, and One told the him he was the Theatre of Dionysius. We visit Mars Hill, the site glad he hadn’t pushed the issueofunder where St Paul expounded the subject monothebefore the pagan Greeks (this address isfrom recorded theism Another visiting inrug. Acts 17:22-31). Weperson, visit the Acropolis and the museThe Greek “acropolis” is used in a broad sense theum. Diocese ofword Erie, Pennsylvania, to designate the fortified height of a city. Located on the saidAcropolis he came from a parish where (the hismain of Athens is the famous Parthenon temple of Athena). Time permitting, we walkof down to pastor had been removed because explore the Ancient Agora and the ruins of the prison where and ultimately abuse and Socrates asked was forheld a copy of the carried hom-out death sentence ily so he could The send it to hishis family. by drinking hemParthenon lock poison. (Please Father Schrenk said the situation note: this pedesis discouraging but he saidtrian it also areacan would mean there would make people realize “we can do somebe a great deal of thing to repair the damage.additional We canwalking). We will proceed to take what’s so good about the church our hotel to check in for dinner and an and salvage that and highlight that.” overnight. [B,D] The priest, who was in seventh Day 7: Friday 10/19, ATHENS/ PIRAEUS / MYKONOS grade when the church abuse cri- pier for This morning, we board our ship at the Piraeus Aegean cruise. Once we setsaid sail, our first stop is the sis an was headline news, it “has picturesque 29 square-mile island of Mykonos, known for its narrow paths,that windmills, over 350 become morewinding obvious the and road tiny chapels that beautifully paint the island’s characto healing is longer teristically blue and whitethan canvas.we Wethought” enjoy some free to wander“a its streets, browseoverhaul.” the many shops near andtime requires systemic the harbor, or relax and enjoy the breathtaking view. We the ship to set sailarchdiocese, for Kusadasi, Turkey. [B] Inreturn thetoWashington which McCarrick led Day Archbishop 8: Saturday 10/20, KUSADASI (EPHESUS) / PATMOS from 2001 until his retirement in 2006, SHORE EXCURSION - ANCIENT EPHESUS AND THE HOUSE OF VIRGIN MARY: Drive through the town of Kusome priests mentioned thecolorful abuse alsadasi to reach Mt. Koressos. Situated in a small valley, it legations that weekend theylies is here where youfirst will visit the humble after chapel which on the site of the little house where The Virgin Mary is were made public believed to have spentJune her last20. days.Others Despite the many controversies, thethe Christian World stilloffavors this28belief spoke about it weekend July and the site has been officially sanctioned by the Vatican 29 after the Vatican announced thatand acfor pilgrimage. Continue on to Ancient Ephesus companied by your guide, walk through the Magnesian Gate which is the entrance to the ancient city of Ephe-
Pope Francis had accepted Cardinal McCarrick’s resignation from the College of Cardinals and ordered him to maintain “a life of prayer and penance” until his canonical trial. Conventual Franciscan Father Matt Foley, a weekend presider at St. Rose of Lima Parish in Gaithersburg, Maryland, said in his July 29 homily that it had been a “rough couple of weeks” for Catholics and said the response to the current news should be to “redouble our faithfulness” and remember “we are not alone in our life of faith.” Deacon Greg Kandra, of Brooklyn, New York, and author of “The Deacon’s Bench” blog, also felt compelled to speak about Archbishop McCarrick in a homily, even though he was not scheduled to preach the July 28-29 sus. See the most magnificent excavations in the world. weekend. St. Paul’s descriptive Letter to the Ephesians (5:21-33) describes the sacred bond between Christ and the Church He published the homily would in a beautiful comparison to thathe of the bond shared by a husbandon andhis his wife. During his three years of residency have given blog, which was in Ephesus, Paul meets 12 believers. He baptized them in sharedGod’s thousands of they times andtheposted holy name and received holy spirit. Next, walk back topage the motor coachparish. along the Arcadian on thewe Facebook of and one Way, where Mark Anthony Cleopatra once rode in procession. From there, we sail to Patmos. In his reflection, he referred to the Ephesus Theaterof the feast House of Mary first official observance of Blessed Stanley Rother, a priest from Oklahoma who served as a missionary in Guatemala during its civil war when priests and religious were often targeted. The priest, who was attacked and killed in the rectory in 1981, had told his family he couldn’t leave because “a shepherd doesn’t SHORE EXCURSION - ST. JOHN MONASTERY AND THE run atGROTTO the first sign of danger.” IN PATMOS: Depart from the port of Scala and enjoy Kandra a short drive to the villagewords of Chora , where the Deacon said those monastery of St. John is built within the walls of a strong fortification. As you walk especially uphill towards the entrance of are good to remember, now, the monastery marvel at this magnificent structure, which “because the900 headlines thethe last few the monk’s was built years ago . View courtyard, and the old bakery before weeksdining haveroom made something all you toovisit the main church noted for its outstanding frescoes and interior clear: decoration. Too many ofvisit our Next, theshepherds small museum where priceless ecclesiastical treasures, books, manuscripts, mosaics, ran. They lookedmedieval the other They icons, splendid textilesway. , vestments and jewelry are sin.” housed. Return to your motor coach and continue to enabled the nearby Grotto of the Apocalypse and the Monastery “Many people have written to me, of the Apocalypse above it. Walk down the steps to the Grotto of the deacon Apocalypse.said. Here you will seeare the niches in outraged,” the wall the that mark the pillow and “They ledge used as a desk by authorfeel of the Book of the But Revelation and the crack angry.the They betrayed. there in the rock made by the voice of God honoring the Holy is something else they Like theof Scala and Trinity. Afterwards, drivefeel. back to the port enjoy some free time inin thisthe quaint and picturesque town. thousands of people Gospel Weheard, board thethey ship and set hunger. sail for Crete.They we just feel are hungry for justice. Hungry for/ SANTORINI Day 9: Sunday 10/21, HERAKLION (CRETE) SHORE EXCURSION - KNOSSOS PALACE & MUSEUM IN accountability.” HERAKLION: Crete is the largest and the most rugged of the Greek islands. route Jerusalem to Rome, St. He noted that weEn live infrom “treacherPaul was forced to anchor here for a few weeks because ous, traitorous times” and that “things of a hurricane. During his stay, he preached to the natives. Crete isbefore also the they home of thebetter. great Minoan Civilimay get worse get zation and the mythological home of Zeus. After a short drivewill through town ofThey Heraklion the tour will arrive But they getthe better. will.” Knossos excavations. Here, Sir Arthur Evan’s archaeoThe at deacon urged readers not dating back to logical discoveries revealed a civilization 4000 BC, when a great empire to despair and outlined theflourished many on the island of Crete. Based on the wealth of artifacts that were found, Evans theorized that this wasCatholic, the site of the ancient Mireasons why he remains Kingdom. These findings will be viewed in detail, as endingnoan with: Catholic. Despite your guide“I willam lead you on a journey of discovery to learn of the sophisticated culture that flourishedI thousands everything. Because of everything. of years ago on this island. The tour will continue to the am Catholic. is my faith.” Museum ofThis Heraklion which houses the treasures from the findings of Knossos, Phaestos, Zakros and others less known cities.
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familial incest which, under canon and civil law at the time, resulted in excommunication and exile. St. Peter Damian recognized the imbalance of power underlying the attempts of clergy to solicit, seduce or coerce others into a sexual act, Anderson said, and he was concerned about “the spiritual impact” such acts had on the victims being led into sin. According to Anderson, the saint used examples in sacred Scripture to formulate and justify his principle that the sins of leaders “must be more vigorously” and publicly prosecuted “than those of the anonymous and powerless,” both to set an example to the whole community and “to turn away God’s wrath.” St. Gregory the Great, too, said the one who fails to correct, “when it is possible for him to do so, makes himself guilty of the other’s fault.”
St. Peter Damian believed bishops not only encouraged illicit or immoral acts to continue by failing to enforce disciplinary action, but their inaction caused the very dignity of the ecclesiastical office to fall into disrepute and lose credibility, Anderson wrote. Critically, the saint saw when leaders were “too weak or apathetic” to enforce the church’s laws, then it was important for the laity to work with others in the church “to compel bishops to uphold appropriate discipline or to remove them from office,” the essay said. “Since temporal privileges such as wealth and coercive power were not inherent to any pastoral office, (St. Peter Damian) argued that the laity could legitimately take these away from the clergy,” Anderson wrote. St. Gregory “granted rights and privileges to a
group of papal agents called the ‘defensores,’ who were not ordained, so that they could investigate and prosecute clerical abuses,” Anderson told CNS. Though many of the laws, policies, procedures and attitudes of the church in the 21st century are markedly different from those of the 11th century, some similar flaws linger today, Anderson argued in his 2004 article. Those include a lack of church bodies set up to investigate and punish negligent bishops and the sense that sexually active clerics and lax superiors are more afraid of scandal and being “despised by people than judged by God.” The fact that there are still people who fail to see the abuse of minors as an abuse of office and of power, he said, “is a telling sign of entrenched problems in the attitudes of some who hold episcopal office,” indicating a sense of entitlement and a failure to remember that leaders are called to serve, not be served.
Fellow prelates weigh in on abuse scandal’s impact Mark Pattison Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – With retired Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick’s resignation July 28 from the College of Cardinals, more of his fellow bishops are commenting on the scandal that has enveloped the former archbishop of Washington and its impact on the larger church. The allegations are “a further painful blow for all of God’s people,” said a July 30 letter by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City to Catholics in his archdiocese. “It is even more egregious when these crimes are perpetrated by members of the clergy and those in positions of trust. Those are among the most bitter fruits of sin.” Archbishop Coakley asked, “How could these allegations have remained under the radar for so long? It seems that many heard rumors of his alleged criminal and sinful behavior.” While the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” adopted by the bishops in 2002 when the clergy sex abuse crisis roared into public consciousness, is “a step in the right direction,” Archbishop Coakley said, “part of the problem is a gap in the charter itself.” He added, “This gap has contributed to the erosion of trust and confidence in episcopal leadership among priests, deacons and the lay faithful. Repairing this gap by creating consistent standards and procedures for all, including bishops, will go a long way toward restoring that trust,” although he acknowledged “they will not be enough,” stressing “humble repentance and continuing conversation for all of us who are in positions of leadership in God’s church.” The archbishop also said the “scourge” of sexual abuse is one of the “bitter fruits” of the sexual revolution that “continue to wreak havoc on human society, the family and the church.” Blessed Paul VI in “Humanae Vitae” 50 years ago, he noted, warned of a “general lowering of morality in society.”
‘How could these allegations have remained under the radar for so long? It seems that many heard rumors of his alleged criminal and sinful behavior.’ Archbishop Paul S. Coakley In an Aug. 1 message on his blog, Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Anchorage, Alaska, said: “Many people – priests, laity and hierarchy – are wondering how this or any bishop might rise to the rank of the episcopacy let alone to become a cardinal in the church.” “Most regular, church-attending Catholics still trust their priests, who minister and serve the people of God faithfully,” he added. “The same can no longer be said of bishops. We have lost the trust of many of our priests and people.” Archbishop Etienne offered a seven-point plan to restore trust, including having an ad hoc committee of the U.S. bishops to write a protocol to have the charter apply to bishops and appointing a separate review board to field abuse accusations against bishops and make recommendations to the Vatican – and with the authority to make its recommendations public if no action has been taken after 60 days “At its core, we are facing a spiritual crisis, and
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Death penalty: Pope changes catechism on capital punishment FROM PAGE 1
Announcing the change Aug. 2, Cardinal Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said, “The new text, following in the footsteps of the teaching of John Paul II in ‘Evangelium Vitae,’ affirms that ending the life of a criminal as punishment for a crime is inadmissible because it attacks the dignity of the person, a dignity that is not lost even after having committed the most serious crimes.” “Evangelium Vitae” (“The Gospel of Life”) was St. John Paul’s 1995 encyclical on the dignity and sacredness of all human life. The encyclical led to an updating of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which he originally promulgated in 1992 and which recognized “the right and duty of legitimate public authority to punish malefactors by means of penalties commensurate with the gravity of the crime, not excluding, in cases of extreme gravity, the death penalty.” At the same time, the original version of the catechism still urged the use of “bloodless means” when possible to punish criminals and protect citizens. The catechism now will read: “Recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair trial, was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an acceptable, albeit extreme, means of safeguarding the common good. “Today, however, there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes. In addition, a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state. Lastly, more effective systems of detention have been developed, which ensure the due protection of citizens but, at the same time, do not definitively deprive the guilty of the possibility of redemption,” the new section continues. Pope Francis’ change to the text concludes: “Con-
rehabilitation of the criminal and a recognition sequently, the church teaches, in the light of the that governments have the ability to detain crimiGospel, that ‘the death penalty is inadmissible benals effectively, thereby protecting their citizens. cause it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity The cardinal’s note also cited a letter Pope Franof the person,’ and she works with determination cis wrote in 2015 to the International Commission for its abolition worldwide.” Against the Death Penalty. In the letter, the pope In his statement, Cardinal Ladaria noted how called capital punishment “cruel, inhumane and St. John Paul, retired Pope Benedict XVI and Pope degrading” and said it “does not bring justice to the Francis had all spoken out against capital punishvictims, but only foments revenge.” ment and appealed for clemency for death-row Furthermore, in a modern “state of law, the death inmates on numerous occasions. penalty represents a failure” because it obliges the The development of church doctrine away from state to kill in the name of justice, the pope had seeing the death penalty as a possibly legitimate written. On the other hand, he said, it is a method punishment for the most serious crimes, the cardifrequently used by “totalitarian regimes and fanatinal said, “centers principally on the clearer awarecal groups” to do away with “political dissidents, ness of the church for the respect due to every minorities” and any other person deemed a threat human life. Along this line, John Paul II affirmed: to their power and to their goals. ‘Not even a murderer loses his personal dignity, In addition, Pope Francis noted that “human jusand God himself pledges to guarantee this.’” tice is imperfect” and said the death penalty loses Pope Francis specifically requested the change all legitimacy in penal systems where judicial error to the catechism in October during a speech at the is possible. Vatican commemorating the 25th anniversary of “The new formulation of number 2267 of the the text’s promulgation. Catechism of the Catholic Church,” Cardinal The death penalty, no matter how it is carried Ladaria said, “desires to give energy to a movement out, he had said, “is, in itself, contrary to the toward a decisive commitment to favor a mentalGospel, because a decision is voluntarily made to ity that recognizes the dignity of every human life suppress a human life, which is always sacred in and, in respectful dialogue with civil authorities, to the eyes of the Creator and of whom, in the last encourage the creation of conditions that allow for analysis, only God can be the true judge and guarthe elimination of the death penalty where it is still antor.” in effect.” Cardinal Ladaria also noted that the popes were The revision of the catechism shows how the not the only Catholics to become increasingly church can grow in its understanding of the imaware of how the modern use of the death penalty plications of basic tenets of faith, said Archbishop conflicted with church teaching on the dignity of Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council human life; the same position, he said, has been for Promoting New Evangelization. “expressed ever more widely in the teaching of “To guard the sacred deposit of faith does not pastors and in the sensibility of the people of mean to mummify it,” the archbishop wrote in God.” L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper. In particular, he said, Catholic opposition to the Safeguarding the church’s long-standing teachdeath penalty is based on an “understanding that ings means allowing them to respond to the new the dignity of a person is not lost even after comquestions of each new generation, the archbishop mitting the most serious crimes,” a deeper underThe Most Requested Funeral Directors in of San in theArchdiocese article published standing that criminal penalties should aim at the The Most Requested Funeral Directorssaid in the the Archdiocese ofAug. San2. Francisco Francisco
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WASHINGTON – The Aug. 2 announcement that Pope Francis had ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church calling the death penalty “inadmissible” was praised by Catholic death penalty opponents in the U.S. “I am overjoyed and deeply grateful to learn that Pope Francis closed the last remaining loophole in Catholic social teaching on the death penalty,” said Sister Helen Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph of Medaille, who is a longtime opponent of capital punishment. Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy, executive director of Catholic Mobilizing Network in Washington, an advocacy group seeking to end the death penalty, called the news “a capstone teaching moment for the Catholic Church.” Both advocates, in separate statements, stressed the clarity of the pope’s announcement. Sister Prejean said the Catholic Church “has opposed capital punishment for many years, but the official language used to talk about the issue up to this point has always been equivocal” leaving room for some to say that “executions are morally permissible.” The catechism’s “new language is very clear,” Sister Prejean said, with its description of the death penalty as “an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” There are “absolutely no exceptions,” she added. Vaillancourt Murphy said Catholic bishops in every state that have
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Father Chris Ponnet, chaplain at the St. Camillus Center for Spiritual Care in Los Angeles, speaks during a rally protesting the death penalty in Anaheim, Feb. 25, 2017. Pope Francis has ordered a revision to the catechism to state that the death penalty is inadmissible and he committed the church to its abolition. the death penalty have taken stands to see an end to this practice. She said the revision to the catechism “further clarifies any remaining ambiguity about the church’s teaching against the death penalty and strengthens the global resolve to bring an end to this practice.” Both leaders pointed out that the Pope Francis’ action builds on work begun by St. John Paul II, who spoke of the dignity of guilty and innocent life and described executions as cruel and unnecessary. “The moral ground zero of this is-
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FRIDAY, AUG. 10 MONTH’S MIND MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will be principal celebrant of a month’s mind Mass for the repose of the soul of Monterey Bishop Richard Garcia who died July 11. Bishop Garcia was 71 years old and had led the Diocese of Monterey for 11 years. The Mass will be celebrated in Holy Cross Mausoleum, Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, at 10 a.m. A light reception will follow. www. holucrosscemeteries.com.
SATURDAY, AUG. 11 FATHER ROLHEISER TALKS: Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, known to many from his columns in Catholic San Francisco and papers around the Father Rolheiser country, will speak at St. Agnes Church, San Francisco, at 9 a.m. and St. Pius Church, Redwood City at 1:30 p.m. His topic at St. Agnes is “The Eucharist: Our one great act of fidelity”; his afternoon topic is “A spirituality of the Eucharist.” Come and be enriched by the wisdom and depth of spirituality of Father Rolheiser, You are welcome to attend one or both sessions. Registration is not required. A freewill offering will be accepted at each site. For more information, contact Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, (415) 614-5535; conrottor@sfarch.org.
TUESDAY, AUG. 14 3-DAY TALKS: Sacred Heart Sister Maria Cimperman, director, Center for the Study of Consecrated Life, Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, leads a three-day program on “Creating Communities of Hope on a Global Scale,” Aug. 14-17, Maryknoll Society House, Los Altos. Religious and interested lay people are invited to take part. https:// maryknollsisters.org/maryknoll-mission-institute-2/; mdonovan@mksisters.org.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 15 PRAYER: “Novena for our Nation,” a 54-day rosary novena from feast of the Assumption of Mary to October 7, feast of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, and date of a national rosary rally in Washington DC. The project invites participants to pray the rosary for 54
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Catholic san francisco | August 9, 2018
Catholic author explores furthest arctic wilderness as sacred space Al Donner Catholic San Francisco
“Gates of the Arctic National Park: Twelve Years of Wilderness Exploration” by Joe Wilkins. (Brown Books Publishing Group, Dallas, Texas, 2018). 328 pages, $39.95. As a 5-year-old growing up on a farm in flatland Illinois, Joe Wilkins was captivated by a kids’ book about Alaska. Later as a young Air Force officer he was plopped into a remote Alaskan arctic wilderness as survival training before being sent to Vietnam. Since that challenge Wilkins has been back to his piece of wilderness – now Gates of the Arctic National Park – more than 50 times. “I’ve visited many major cathedrals,” Wilkins says, “and I get that same feeling of holiness when I enter the remote wilderness in the Arctic.” It was, in fact, while walking the 675-mile pilgrimage route from Lourdes to Compostela that Wilkins decided to write a book about his experiences in the Arctic. The result, “Gates of the Arctic National Park: Twelve Years of Wilderness Exploration,” reveals a wilderness that few ever see. With more than 500 color photos – including 100 full-page pictures – the book stands out. The photos show the diversity of a region with its sheer mountains and rock improbably contorted, water in exuberant shapes and displays, game charging, escaping, hiding or idling along with a few people and their impacts in the wilderness. Wilkins includes photos of a grizzly bear charging him (it stopped, apparently convinced it had established who was number one). And he recounts a nighttime “conversation” with a nearby pack of wolves. Once he came across an old cabin near a river. Close by was a small stone-concrete monument
Author Joe Wilkins in the arctic wilderness.
(Courtesy photo)
with two graves plus a cigar and a Vietnam Veteran cap almost identical to one Wilkins wears. Wilkins’ book is the first written about the park, which is larger than the state of Maryland. Yet it has not a single human resident, no roads, not even a people hiking trail (but plenty of bear and other animal trails). The park protects some of the planet’s grandest mountains, with its sheer cliffs, fossils of tropical coral preserved in mountaintop rocks, even backward-bending rock faces. The park is alive with untamed rivers, lakes, tough animal species and voracious insects. Wilkins is a retired college business professor. When not in the wilderness, he lives in Springfield, Illinois, where he is a lector and extraordinary minister of Holy Communion at Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. A few years ago Wilkins took Father Peter Harman, then his pastor and now rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome, on a trek into the wilderness. One photo in the book shows
Father Harman saying Mass in the wilderness, his altar a camp stool by a river with two mountains as backdrop. Wilkins’ first encountered the area about 50 years ago, when the Air Force dropped him there for wilderness training. He was being prepared for Vietnam where he was stationed with Montagnard tribes, a daily trek close to death. His role was remote and extraordinarily hazardous, assisting and learning from the Montagnards in the remote jungle mountains of Vietnam. He returned home, physically safe but strongly impacted by horrific war experiences that surfaced in nightmares. “Nobody ever really gets over warfare,” Wilkins cautions. His wife, Jean, and his Catholic faith helped him regain physical and emotional strength. After the war he became a professor at the University of Illinois, Springfield, retiring in 2003. Since then he increasingly returned to Gates, hiking, canoeing, taking lots of photos and collecting notes on his wilderness experience. Soon the National Park Service called on him to help prepare young park staff for their work in the wilderness. His 50-plus trips generated the cache of photos, notes and memories he used to prepare the book, published this year. Book proceeds go to a fund Wilkins established to provide college scholarships to vets. Gates of Arctic is one of the nation’s largest national parks yet possibly the least visited or known. It envelops 200 miles east-to-west of the Brooks Range, Alaska’s northernmost mountains. Within Gates there are no residents, no roads, no landing strips, no campgrounds. It is a raw, virginal wilderness where self-survival has real meaning. Even experienced backpackers are cautioned that five miles a day is good traveling. And they all know that grizzly bears are the senior species. As Wilkins notes “where all roads end, the real magnificence of the arctic wilderness commences.” Al Donner, a Canisius College alum, is a retired journalist who covered California and national politics and currently writes for the California Catholic Conference and The Catholic Voice (Diocese of Oakland), frequently on the value of life.
Compendium of monastic wisdom can aid in anyone’s spiritual journey Kathleen Finley Catholic News Service
“Spirituality: An Art of Living: A Monk’s Alphabet of Spiritual Practices” by Benoit Standaert, OSB. Liturgical Press (Collegeville, Minnesota, 2018). 409 pp., $39.95. If you’ve ever wanted to sit down and pick the mind of a monk – a man or woman steeped in the church’s monastic tradition stretching back to the desert fathers and mothers – then this is the book for you. Perhaps a better subtitle for it would be “A Sampling of Monastic Wisdom” because there is plenty of wisdom to be had in this sizable hardback, complete with a ribbon marker. From Abba to Zero, the 99 entries here explore many topics that are spiritual, philosophical, poetic and also inclusive. While most entries are from the Christian tradition, there also are topics from Judaism (Tsimtsum), Islam (Dhikr) and Taoism (WuWei.) The reader can begin anywhere, and each entry suggests other possible references within the book that may be of further interest. Highlights include the entry on breathing: “Many wise words and short prayer forms can be based on the rhythm of our breath. They support this rhythm and, at the same time, are carried by it. I breathe in, I am. I breathe out, I give thanks. Mindfully and in wonder I do one and experience the other.” Another gem is the entry on chastity, to which we are all invited: “If love is a source that never
runs dry, it is thanks to chastity. Chastity keeps the heart alert, not to avoid love in fear, but to approach love with greater diffidence. You can never be too chaste in love, you can never overdo love when you have a chaste attitude. Having both go hand in hand is an art and, like every art, requires time and patience.” One of the strengths here is that these ideas are not just about living in a monastery but about our real lives, as is especially evident in considering rituals: “We should ... be able quietly to pay attention to small, mindful rituals in our ordinary, daily life. Tucking a child into bed and entrusting it to the loneliness of night does not happen without an elementary ritual. From this we can learn how ritual can also give form to other ways of parting and confiding another to the unknown, like giving a kiss, reading a poem or a story, drawing a small cross on the forehead, or leaving a nightlight on. These are all symbols of closeness at the moment of distancing ourselves from the other.” In the company of Father Benoit Standaert, an articulate Benedictine monk from Belgium, we
are led to see all as sacrament: “Everything is sacrament because ‘sacrament’ is nothing but a practice in which God and human being encounter each other ... Sacraments are practices that work a transformation. So you may consider this whole book a treatise on sacraments. Transformation is a process. The goal is nothing less than sharing in the freedom of the Son, a playful dance in the glory of being children of God.” Although inevitably some entries are better than others and there are some topics surprisingly missing, such as vocation and the earth and the environment, this volume is an invitation into many encounters with deep and tested holiness, as is clear in the epilogue: “In poverty and gratitude we breathe broadly and happily in solidarity with all that exists without pretense: a blade of grass, a sparrow, a child, a friend, a wisp of cloud in the sky, and a distant star. Death may knock at the door, it no longer scares us. A greater awe has already consumed that fear. To die is to give up one’s spirit, to surrender one’s breath completely – in a kiss, why not? ... The ‘light of Light’ that visited us, and that ensured that we walked as ‘light in Light,’ shall lead us after death in what cannot be anything else but a festival of light.” What a grace to have such a helpful accompaniment in that journey. Finley is the author of several books on practical spirituality, including “The Liturgy of Motherhood: Moments of Grace” and “Savoring God: Praying With All Our Senses,” and taught in the religious studies department at Gonzaga University for many years.
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